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ngloz 10 GATT a to Presicest Lincoln. -2 J tout , from 3 cz thirtyeeven Bates. Canad a “Friends Conference anc Vigi! on the Wer in Vietnam.” convened by the Frien2: Coordin Committee Peace. . The conterence was # deeply meaningful one to ali who participated Urfortunately we arrived toc late to hear what We Wert IGlc Wis an eactieni tlk on “Friends Faang the Chalienge of War Today” by Samue! Levering “chairman of the Board of Christian Soci ice OF Friends United Meet ing. but we did reach there to hear Stephen G. Cai of the Americar, Friends Service Commitee speak on “Key Policy Approaches in Southeast Asia.” He said that as our present policies had not worked ou:, the government had simply escalated them! The people of Vietnam, he added, fee) ahat a new day is coming, and even though, in their poverty and misery, they do not know what this new day will be, they ‘want to be a part of it Our premise that we mus: make a stand ‘or the rest of the world will fal! is a false one, as is our theory that we can go out 10 win the people with food while at the ‘same time destroying them with force. ‘Mrs. Kiyoho Cho, exchange professor at Princeton from International University in Tokyo, speaking on “How Asians Regard U. S. Policy,” said that 75 per cent favor a ceasefire and that she is Cisturbed about so much news of escalation and 40 lite understanding of social problems. She spoke of the Great social changes, such as ‘votes for women, that came about in Japan after World War II (though they had started before), and of the great push toward learning in China, where any. one who can read is trying to teach. others. If America coul only understand, she said, U. §. policy might be different. Hollané Hunter, economist and author from Havertord ~ [College, considered the question: “How Shall the United 2 4States Deal with Communism?” In the next few years, be said, millions of people—poor, hungry, turbulent, €nvious, poorly ‘ducted, desperate——will rise in a surge of action, economic pressure, and politica) desires. Our role should be one of concern, al On Fei-u: New York uw inheritance is a colonial past and our background is rich (comparatively), educated, white, and healthy. Outsiders cannot y @ffect social revolutions for oxhers, but we must learn all we: €an about them and help to solve their great problems in ~ monviolent, humane ways. . Eileen Brinton Waring. whose drawings illustrating “Four Friends Drop in on Lincoln” (excerpus from her grandfather's journal) ap- - peared in the Farexns Journal of May 15, 1965, is a New York formerly Philadelphia) Friend and artist. Her Tepori on the con- erence ad Vigil in Washington is augmented by several paragraphs = taken from another report written Sally Honan, also Ji Teconciliation, but we are under a severe disadvantage, for our_ 146,117 — "Friends Jou Priledelphie pee: 3/15/66 : Edinon; VOl, 12 ' avthor: Eileen B.War: Edvor: Frances Will: Tale: Brown Charccter: or Clavettication: Sobmitting Office: PH {7 Being lovestigated