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American Friends Service Committee — Part 28
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"6, To ask our Quaker scho ls and collegzs to refuse
to ace2pt rilitary training wits sr contracts, or military subsidics
for scicntific res arch, and te advise Young Friends not to accent military
training in cth:r institutions,
"9, fo crante 2 hon? and forily atnosphore in which the = ways
of low: and reconcilitation are so central that the resort to violzece
in my rolationship is impossible.
Bs To halp erlep the institutions, mthods, ond attitucczs
necassary to 2 har:omni ous and seceful vrorid; tx reploe2 political anarchy,
or ancnt; to vrcess for verld
inning unilaterally wi ted "sts ntcs, if necessary,
instes a@oof th. przsent armanmnt raez3 to work for ths
raft legislaticn; and to share willingly and sacrific.
for the rebuilding of the world.
adiate repral of
y our rusourccs
an oight-pags parphict cntitled "25 Years of Nilo! To Viar',
published by “RL (War Residers Longue) listed an iterdtaation of the history
of the URL bisinnins in 1923. On png? fsur of this panphlot it is stated:
"Calling 211 War Resistors = Again, war hes brought ns pcacc,
no szeurity anywinre, “ith rillions ccac, other rillieas dying in $l
labor pgoor pirishing in so-called 'fregden! throushvat a ruined Su:
with Cermmunisn rif2, and Fascis:: by nv miss a, the skies aro fark ince
But for war Resisters thir: must be no retrente
: "Now that the Slective Service Act of 1948 has passed into
law despite the long anc voliant offerts of tha peace firees to defeat it,
tha League nust teke stock of fresh raspousibilitics. Since this fet, lila
its pred2cossor, vides n2oabselute c tion for th 1952 conscioncas
forbid any submiss gaatover to Conscription, the League vill work to
gain absolute fread for such nen freri ecnseripted sarvicc, whether in
prison er out of it . On the othar hand it will also lend its aid to these
able to accept alte:nativ: service. Opposing Conscription «n principls,
it will ce: 2 wit. all werking for the r2peal of the act
and will ur gova to propose to its Jelrgates to the United
Nations the universal rbolition of Congeription,
"Zqually tho League will combat tocay's mounting rilitarisn
in all ita foms, Jt will strive fer the dis ant of this naticn «
the world, i e2ful techniques, we L berg will .s
and aznin to con our fallow fiaericans that an atenie war may
woll ties grave of civiliunticn, but that point-blank renunciat:
by the individual, by groups and by nations is neezssary to avert this
~5=
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