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-22- _ . ‘) might and main to rebuild its country and its way of life, ' Do Friends wish to condemn the Christian regimes of Guatemala, of Chiang Kai-shek and Syngman Rhee and give enthusiastic approval of Communism in these countries? Thatis what the Service Committee is doing in their name, not only in these pamphicts but in much other literature. Documentation such as the above could be continued at great length but these must surfice to demonstrate our contention that forces are at work in the Service Committee to pervert and destroy its usefulness as an instrument ef Christian service. Much good pacifist material is available and a rich Quaker Hterature on this and other testimonies of our Socicty can be uscd to ’ meet ell needs in this field. There is no excuse for continuing the circulation of un-Christian, subversive and highly objectionable matter. One may well inquire just what is the purpose of the Service Committee in continuing to circulate so much anti- .merican pro-Communist literature. Tre cause of 1merican Cuakerism is not advanced by pushing booke and literature such as we have described nor by speakers who continually rank the United States as cqual with or far below Russia. In our opinion, the vast reservoir of fooc- will built by devoted Guakers of carlicr generations is being exhausted by thees who have turned the Religious Society of Friends into a left-wing, agitation group. Have we so far lost faith in the appeal of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that we must turn fror it and place our faith in the coercive power Of the state We xvegard this as an appeal from Godto Caesar. Having lost raith in the power — Lc of our religion to redeem men, who will in turn change their own institutions, we scem to be appealing to the police power of the state to do what we evidceniy esborna men cannot do. ct [ . rt is fal y oo a en a nea ap