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American Friends Service Committee — Part 30

122 pages · May 24, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: American Friends Service Committee · 121 pages OCR'd
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ricer a } Although he has by his own statement never knowingly had membership in any organizations cited as subversive by the Attorney General of the United States, he has cooperated with some of these organizations at various times in the Past where their purported g9als seemed to coincide with his own. The informant --——_Sald that while (SAME loyalty is believed to be above reproach, his humanitarian zeal has sometimes caused him to be imprudent in accepting the ostensible motives of others wit hout question. Through his intense desire to achieve universal peace, he has also lost sight of the danger inherent in theCommnist conspiracy to dominate the earth.. The June 2, 1955, Final One Star edition of the "Evening Bulletin,” a Philedelphia daily newsparer, page 5, column 3, carried an article captioned “QUAKER GROUP CALLS VIOLENCE MORES EVIL THAN COMPIUNISH.* This article stated that the AFSC had on that date released a book prepared by the AFSC called . "SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER.it A summary of this book stated that it is an unsound premise that Comsunism is the greatest evil of the day. The greatest evil, according to the summary, is “commitment to violence!t on the part of any nation and “the military code it holds that man is an instrument of the state. Tne summary stated “Cormunism applies this code to all of life but the West de not free of it.'t According to this article, the book, "SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER, advocates peaceful or pacificist approaches to world tensions.7 On Mey 4, 1955, Confidential Infcrmant T-4, who has furnished “ peliable inform ation in the past, made available a copy of an announcement of the Annual Institute of International Relations to be held at the Community Club, Hershey, Pa., on April 30, 1955, under the auspices of the AFSC. This announcerent listed the faculty of this institute as being composed of I. F. STO'E, LALLA TSINMSOU, and TOM WARDLS. The announcerent contained a brief deser$ pion of t Se indivi dua s which is being set out as follows: . oe i Fit lib A ‘ ‘posbe ot vor of 11. F. STONE?S WEEKLY,* : on, Washingto Formerly 0 one “of the editors of the *'Nation.t Wrote vo toe for P.H. anl_the New York Daily Compass. Jn the spring of 1946 \o was the first newspaper man to travel the Jewish Underground from Poland to Palestine as an illegal refugee, the experiences he , later described in his book, *Underground to Palestine.t Also a o . author of the "Hidden History of the Korean War.! nw . . UHALLAMTENVYSON: Member of the London Yarly Meeting of Friends; oa ho was a member of the Friends Acbulance Unit. Worked two years .¢,, in India, where he lived consistently at the village level and te spoke and read Bengali. Was the writer of *Hinds in Movement,? a Quaker study of Asia and the West. Author of the just published, 'ndiats Validng Saint,’ a stwly of Vinova Bhave. he . 7 . 1 ch iio an tee
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