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American Friends Service Committee — Part 3
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were still on U.N, payrolls, There would scem to oe amsle reason tor
checkups.
Tismissals from U. N. are made only after very careful investisaiion,
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fay should the Service Committee be so concerned for these persons who have
along xcord of association with Communits and communist activitics -- pcoole
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whose loyalty is extremely shaky, LU not non-existent -- and why should such
people continue to be employed in sensitive U. N, positions?
VThat connection is there between the administration of relief and sitting in
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judgment upon the internal workings of U, N.? Do Friends wish to set themselv.
up as judges in these matters?
AC OTHERS SEE US
fan Editor of LOOM, who is a concerned Christian and an active church
waember, concluded his report on the addresses, discussions and literature offered
for sale ina Service Committee Institute held at Hsiel Cnondaca, Syracuse,
New York, February 22nd to 24th, 1952 with the following staternent:
"The only conclusion I came to is this: That the whole Quaker
movernent (that is, Institutes and literature) is Aalarce trans-
mission belt for the Party line idea, s vaanipulated constantly
by agents of Soviet Russia. It is inconceivable to me tnat any
Cuakers can call themselves intellicent and follow this propa-
ganda, They cannot be mood Cuakers and doit, If they swallow
it, they are stupid, and if they are not stunid, then they are
completely subversive in my oninion,"
Vie repard this statement as too sweeping but it docs show how earnest,
intelligent Christians appraise the outgivings at these Service Coramittce Insti-
tutes, An active church member, patriot and former newspaper woman, Mrs.
Helena Ratzka, sent asimilar, if not more caustic, appraisal of the Service
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Cormamittee Institute held at Cornell University, July loth to 1¢th, 1953.
“The Saturday Evening Post for March C, 1950 contains an clitorial
describing certain activities of Communists and their communist front asso-
ciates, “ proraincnt member of the Service Committce is mentioned in connection
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