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comes .& Communist state, te Sio~siuty and report on the Viet- rest of Southeast Asia will fol- low ‘ike a row of dominoes’’; and that if the U.S. reneges on its commitment, American prestige will be hurt elsewhere. The booklet concludes in- stead; that victory is impossibie in the face of Viet Cong ‘‘zeal’’; that this a basically a civil war; that the rise of nationalism in Southeast Asia makes the “domino theory” inapplicebl and that our original commi ment to Diem’s government was in no sense a pledge of military Bapport. { Once negotiations are under- tiken, the report states, political settlement must be faced. The booklet lists ten steps in such @ settlement, including a super- vised cease- fire, a Geneva~ type conference, the phased with- d>awal of American troops, the protection and resettling of re- fugees, and the provision of massive economic assistance. Mirsky and Rickett were members of an eight-man work- ing party appointed by the Ameri- canEniends Service Committss— nam situation, Other members of the group are: Bronson Clark, vice president of Gilford In- strument Laboratories, Inc., Oberlin, Ohio; Woodruff Emlen, investment counselor; Dorothy; Hutchinson, International Chair- man of the Women’s Internation: League for Peach and Freedom George McT. Kahin, Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Cor- nell University; A.J. Muste, ex- ecutive secretary emeritus of the Fellowship of Reconciliation; and Clarence Yarrow, In- ternational Affairs Division sec~ retary of the American Frien Service Committee, Non-Profit Writing | Mirsky described the spe and coordinatidn with which the pamphiet was put together. The committee started writing in! mid-November and completed it in January “with no haggling’. “This is a great example,’’ he said, “of how the Quakers make people suppress their egos.’” Mirsky also noted that~ail of the writing was convletely, without financial profit. Th:.work” party was not paid to d: the writing, por will they collect royalties from the writing. .