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bi SON . . - . - Ii General Activities To On September 28, 1955, Confidential ‘Informant >a; who has ~ furnished reliable information in the past, advised that the AFSC held a meeting at the Fr. as (Quaker) Keeting House, 31515 Cherry Street, Phila- Gelphia, on September 2h, 1955. The purpose of this meating was, to present a report to the general membership of AFSC on the overseas, service of the f _+ organization, “The featured portion of the heeting was a report by the ' APSG representatives who visited the USSR in June, 1955, cn a good will tour, “ ., This report consisted of jadividual reparts by i a oenoencn™ ITS, three of the six representatives who made the tour. Each of these individual reports dealt with that particular in- dividualts primary interest on the tour. According to the informant, none favorable to ths USSR but dealt with ths citizen, There were no political implications in any reporte 7. . marily with literature, vhiler“>O TTF dealt with the rel - and > Adealt with agriculture. A report was ms of the directars of the AFSC work in Gera wT report’ concerned the AFSG'S rehabilitation work in Germany and also touched on the unification of East and West Germany. According to the informant, (7 77$ stated that the Friends (Religiovs Sociaty of Friends) feel that unification of Garmany is not necessary for peacs, and i nat peaceée The differences between attitudes and o: 4% is so great that there 4s now no basis for safa unification. If the two coms together now by unifica- ticn or relaxing of borders, it would pose great problems not only for Gernany, but for the rest of the world, The East and West must go through a long pericd of trying to understavd each other before wmification in ey real senss would be safe. . , - Gencaming ¢ ere a Coeniuy mel ¢ 32s found to bs a man of dsep religious convictdons and aB such, he finds atheistic Communism repugnant, He has devoted a lifetime to many hunaniterien causes sponsored by the Religious Society of Friends. In keeping with the tenets of his religion, he has often spoken out against war and preparation for war, including the manufacture of atomic weapons both by ., tho United States and other nations. Although ke has by his own atatement, never knowingly had mambership in any organizatim cited as subversive by the