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wom ge Ln eres eer . ~ . sssetiesn Minky, Orienia! Studies inszructor at the Dinu, tpeaning on "A Fresi. Ap whos he talked last summer feli thei our war is with but diet we are using their country for demonstration poses. He resist stifiens (just as was the case wi Germens bombed them). and more anc mor -in line agains: us. Both sides commi: atrocities, he said, and: our ideais continue to erode. For year the German people kept] quict while 2 whole community was being destroyed; now a community across the world is also being destrovec. Do we want to participate in its destruction? Ata general session various concerns were brought forward anc referred to several Saturday-afiernoon workshops, the re- sults of which were summed up at the evening session, which vas brought to # meaningful close by Dorothy Hutchinson of bington Meeting, Jenkintown, Pa. international chairman f the Women's Internationa) League for Peace and Freedom, hose theme was “Surengthen with Might by His Spirit” The early Christians, she said, were not afraid of power. In a poll of taxi drivers, she reported, she hac found most of them -against the war. Think of their power, she suggested: “Taxi Drivers Against the War in Vietnam!” (Later we stared our ‘own poll on this, but we must have picked the exception, for he was sul! shouting at us as we escaped 20 join the vigil!) Besides expressing moral judgment on war, Dorothy Hutch- -inson, Temainded us, we must bave all the facts: the Geneva -sceords, this as a civil war, what the real story of the commit menu are, and why containment of communism is not only ineffectual but inadvisable. To pray and then to fee} relieved of responsibiliry, she said, can lead to nothing being done by the individual, Prayer should increase sensitivity, and the action following it is a required release. A deep silence foliowed her” Tk. Chairmen of the various conference sessions included Stew. t Meacham of the American Friends Service Committee, Lyle arum of she Friends Peace Committee, George Corwin, Viewnamest Lait ott ecuhe U.N.) is envisioned Friends General Conferere Geer et Sawyer 0 of Friends Ui Meeting, and Edward Snyder of dhe Friends Committe National Legislation. During the business sessions and after intensive discu of the workshop reports, the conference concurred in a the Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace to send for to Friends’ bodies 2 concern endorsed by New York ¥ Meeting’s Representative Committee “that every possible m -be explored to secure unrestricted passage of relief wo and material to the embated people of both North and § Vietnam.” The committee was also asked 10 prepare a bul urging Friends to consider how paying taxes anc buying bonds involved them in Gnancing the military. A minute was approved asking Friends to assist pol candidates with “peaceoriented” platforms, with the F giving guidance by drawing up a “peace platform for | and a bibliography on how to organize political action. Intense concern with an enlightened China policy bro approval of a greatly expanded politica) and educational ¢ “based on the present ones of the AFSC and the FCNL, would reach all Monthly Meetings in the United Stat conference, vigil, or public witness in the fall of 1966 (por