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C ~li- '} even below, the level ef the U.S.S.R. Yet, again and again, this is precicety what Committee spokesmen feel called upon to do. In our judsment, such activities are destroying the good name that multitudes of our Cuter ancestors have bequeathed tous. One Service Committee speaker remembers how co a renorter from the communist Daily Vorker followed the proceedings of ons of the Institutes. There was evidence of much glee at the propaganda being develoned by several of the speakers. Many of the signers of this document believe that the continual extension of the power and functions of government will lead to the authoritarian state. Te believe there should be less fovermment, not more, and that followin the linc proclaimed so widely in Service Committee Institutes will lead to the loss ci our liberty, our self-government, our economic prosperity and cirectly to some form of authoritarian government little better than slavery. LITERATURE Hugene Lyons, Senior Editor of the Reacer's Digest, has never been hostile to Sriends. He has written recently one of the best biographies of former Pr G sident Herbert Hoover, Tollowing the visit of six Cuakers to Russia, he ™ wrote 2 piece for the National Review, September 22, 1956, called 'Six Tuchkers 1 in Scarch of Co-existence. Speaking of the pamphict published by the Service Parad Amat Pat oa ee ot ada Whdaby eh be fhie sr of ais pe z= ais Commilitee a 'The pamphlet is as cold-blooded and cynical a document as has come to my attention in many & a year, and Dam omething of a connoisscur of the literature of pro-Ssoviet pologetics. I searched its Qe mages for a word of cam- sion for the victims of the brutal totalitarian state; a oupcon of sympathy for the millions steeped (4s is evidenr * as bh SG aa os)