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@uiet Quaker Vig oil ‘Elits A-Bomb Vest A silent protest against nuclear testing and A-homb warfare is being carried out acoss the nation and around the world by the American_Fricnds Service Committe (Quaker) it was announced here this week. The unique protest cd “A Vigil of Concern” takes. place at court houses, federal buildings end ju the crowd- ed urban areas with protesters quietly standing, passing + eut the following memorandum: ! “Each nuclear test. hy our country or another, adds , to the air, the soil, the foods we eat, new poisons which will cause disease and death. “Each nuclear test, by our country or another isa further stcp in a nuclear arms race now almost heyond . control. .. As we stand in silence. our thoushts are tuned to the realities of our time—the anonymous deaths which will result from fallout; the Canger that nuclear war, started by accident or design, will destroy millions of lives the threats to frecdom from dictaiorships of the Left and Right: the misery af millions who lack the food and - shelter” our technology could provide. Our thoughts are turned also to the faith that man has the capacity to mect these challenges with better answers than hydrogen bombs. and that he may yet turn his energies from destruction and use his new power, te enrich life rather than threaten it. “If you share this concern, will you 1 join as in the vig- il, or express your coneern in your own way to your Con- gressman, to Chairman Khrushchev and to other world ders. If you do not share this concern, ‘will you consider these questions: If the race is not stopped now. when wilf it be na Officials of the Committee report that more than | N a If you do rot help end it. who will? 000 ® vigils have been carried out across the conti- 4 The Washisgton Post and__ ‘Times Herald The Washington Datly News ‘The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune — New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily Ne New York Post ‘The New York Times —__. ‘The Worker ‘The New Leader ‘The Well Street Journc! —__ ‘The Nationa! Observer ——. Date 1/31/62 "Muhammad Speaks Page 9. a