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SOt (Continued) 12 November 1956 AXERICAN FRIENDS SEMVICE COMMTTES Page 2 dodging the draft and mllitery service by residing in @ foreign country. It “ was noted that menbers often carried large axcunts of Literat: indicating that 4aFSC carried on @ recruiting campaign for ite Yezican activities among young Asorioans of military age. Sources telieved that euch advertising delayed end - impeded the American war effort and provided @ convenient venus of escape from ~e military service for young Anericanse | (Be2) oe _ "4s An inforzant of knewn reliability advised thet the American Friends Service Institute at Albright Collers, Reading, Pannsvivania held a meeting titled “Fellowship of Reconciliation” Day on 13 July 1946. Kezbers of the Fellow ship of Reconciliation were urged to attend thie xeeting. A special nesting war echeduled with A. Je” fuste end Eayerf-Rustin as the speakers. (Rustin was’ sen- tenced to a throe svar tera in the Federal Penitentiary as a resuit of his rofue- al to ctay the Seloctive Sarvice Ast). The final report of the Prison Service Comittee revoaled that AYSC had been active in aidirg aod rehabilitating por- sons sentenced to prison in the United States, with particular attention toward Peracna who had been imprisoned as conscientious obsectors. The AFSC acted as @ distributor for a pamphlet entitled Be, The Cffecders, by Arle Brooks. The pre: of the pamchlot indicated that croocs had teen sentenced to prison on “ two separate occasicns as a conscientious obfector, once for refusing to reris- ter for the draft and once for not having a Gra:t card. The parchlet was pub- liahed by the Social Industrial Seetion of the AFSC. A newspaper article ep- - poared in the Fhilazelrhia Inquirer on 2 Juno 1951 by George E. Sokolsky, assort- dng that AFSC, the Irading orcanitation axcne the Quakers, had iasued @ panphlet designed to encourage Americans to favor peace. (8-2) Se The files of another agency of known reliability indicated that the AFSC has st various tines auprerted Socialists and pro~Communists. The A:SC held {tx ennval Instituto of Internationel Relations st Uershoy, Pennsylvania cn 7 to 9 Sey 1956. The rrocram of this iratitute wae entitled “lorld Foous on J. S. ord One of the speakers eas Dork Fedde, @ pro-Com=unist professor fren Fhiladelphi Penneylvania. So known Communists were observed at thie mosting and no Commn: activity, was reported. (B-2) Only {nformation derived from Army sources {9 included in thie summary. ne . . —_ ¢. . REGRADED UNCLASSIFIED ' . a . Ole pec 176 ~ : ‘ BY CAR USAINTA FOIG AUTH PARA 1-603 Do0p5200