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ran - . cory ti WAR DEPARTLENT | ‘M, T. De - (CIB) 7390 (6-29-42) Se G-2 WDC & Fourth Arny Presidio of San Francisco ely & 1942 Subject: AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COLMITTEE Summary of T.formations Recent activity of the AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COM<ITTEE has made it advisable that a summary on subject organization be prepared for disseminae - tion and that information available in other agencies be solicited. *. The FRIENDS is a Quaker organization with headquarters in Phila-~ delphia, Pas, at 20 South 12th Street. Subject group, a section of the i, RESISTER'S INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF INTERNATIONAL ANTI-MILITARISTS GROUPS, | wae registered with the Secretary of State on November 9, 1939, as an orfan- dzation engaged in the solicitation and collection of contributions to be: - used for relief in belligerent countries. Committee organization is as follows: Chairman, RUFUS H. JONES; Secretary, FE. RAYMOND WELSONs Executive Secretary, CLAPEKCE P, “PICKETT; Treasurer, WILLIAM 2.° FOGG. JONES is knowm to have made speeches before Pacifist groups, and WILSON, although publicly met ott wf 23... ade ewe td Lie. nt fave = won eet nde PO A Griticizing HITLER, has declared hinself in AavUL of a negotiated vuavve a pamphlet entitled "The Society of Friends in Regard to War" was issued in Cincinnati, Ohic, by subject group, which stated that war end Christianity are incompatible; therefore they, as Christians, cannot support war. CLARENCE PICKETT is known to have mailed a form letter to the President in the name of the\POST TAR FORLD COUNCIL, the specifio purpose of which was to urge ex- tension to Japanese aliens of the right to a hearing before civilian boards to attest their loyalty. One GEORGE KNOX'ROTH, a representative of the AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, ALSRICAN QUAKER GROUP, headquarters at 554 Eaat Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, California, has also been an active ~ opponent of Japanese evacuation from the West Const. - It is believed that there are 19 members of the FRIENDS in Mexico at present, in the vicinities of Torreon, Coah.s, Durango, Dzo., and Vera Cruz, Veracruz, The boys are occupied in such work as draining swamps and '” minor construction, while the girls are doing gratuitous recreational work for the Mexican people, the purpose of which is the improvement of inter- national relations between the United States and Mexico, In moat cases the boys have been granted permission by their draft boards to engage in this _ work for 6 months, It is reported that many members of the FRIENDS are engaged in similar free work among the migrating workers in the United States, 5 102" H24a- 12 REGRADED UNCLASSIFIED | ‘/ ) av Aj pee ON 23 DEC 176 - SALT YP GE yo i foe recuse BY GOR USAINTA ole a AUTH PARA I-603 D0D520 , a eran me