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American Friends Service Committee — Part 26
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| PHILADELPHIA, Ju ~The response to the Quaker
piace report on U. S.-Soviet relations has been so big that
iUyree printings of the 15,000-word document have been re-
_ _ ¥ quired within’ a week of its issue
{on July 18.
The 30-page, mimeographed re-
bort, prepared -by a 16-member
group of the “American Friends,
ice Cormitive” declares that
between the United Sttaes
_ and the Soviet Union can be avoid+
el cnd certain definite actions by’
tie United States cun increase the
Hikelihood of avoiding it.”
. iA spokesman for the Amesican
Friends Service Co: ice, at 20
. S. 12th St. Fhiiade a. tol
Daily Worker correspondent that
the Committee had originally mi.
meographed 1.000 copies of their
study and recommendations for
peace.
MANY REQUESTS
Requests for copies came in so’
“fericly, that another 1.500 weres
of, and quickly exhausted.
The third mm was 2.500 copies.
She Committee is considering
Printing the report in the fall.
One Senator asked for 50
copies. The Farmers Union asked
- for 35. But most of the requests
were for single copies. They came
from all over the country, and
from every variety of individual
and organization. ranging from,
the ClO Electrical Workers Union,
to Wamer Brothers. 4
They included. _ universities;
libraries, the Federal Council oft
Churches, the World Jewish Con-
gress, many religious and church.
brganizations, and sume Maraist
‘TOPS. _
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“<INETeport took six months tq :
prepare, and its recommendations
are based on the couviction thab
“both the Soviet social organiza<
tion aud the type of social organi+
zation prevailing in the Western
world are likely to persist for some
time, and that attention should
be directed to their co-existence
sather than te the victory of either
over the other.”
When asked whether the
Friends had considered getting
together all the people and groups
” interested in their repart, 2 spokes-
man said this was probably with-
a tthe province of some of thy
‘ours themselves. that the ré-
ort was a tentative one, ancl
yibmitted for “discussion and
constructive criticism.”
_ This is a clipping from
- \ Page of the
. , 4 Daily Worker
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