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(— () Cne of the most disappointing experiences that I know about wa the report made that the Service Committee had been invited into a certain situation. To the best of my knowledge, the way they got into it was by "fighting' for the opportunity. The question af: chairmanship is one that has bothered me for a ‘According to the By-laws, iz I remember correctly, the te : : at ¢ fi ~ = ia cet for five years, but cach year that section of the By-laws is s aside, Surely the Society of Friends, if they must have a chaivenan pelon to the Sacicty, is not so completely bankrupt as to preclude the selection new chairman. There is nothing personal in this, only the good order of Society. ; 3 Wheredo the funds come from? Rather reluctantly some fi scemto be made available, Originally a real sizeable percentasre of tributions was from Friends and friends of Friends, Today, I understand th percentage has shrunk to about 20%. In the meantime, contributions from foundations have made up the deficit, That's the easiest money available these days. It doesn’t make any difference how the money is accumulated. If the moncy, mo matter how accumu- lated, now rests in a foundation, all is forgiven, and the Service Committee ap- parently never asks how the original money was accumulated, Certainly large blocks of money have a way of dictating their utili- ation, They always have, and directly or indirectly, that policy will no doudt ontinue to prevail, Most certainly, the most guarded secrets of the Committee are the names of its contributors, but it does seemito me that we have @ right to an ace- counting, broken down into various categories, Probably the most controversial situation that involves the Service Committee today is the Fund for the Republic. Interlocking directors of this Fund are botha Hability and anassct, Certainly the Socicty is en titled to kn os how the rr iend who } i565 4 dire ector of the Fund feels about the situation. Cer Nee de his presence on the Board indicates his approval of the operations of the Fund, in the absence of any statement to the contrary, Of course, there is another close connection between the Fund and the Committce personnel that may be more responsible for the close cooperation. Publications + In the past, the Society has taken precautions to see that everything that was said in the name d Friends was done under the authority of a requlare- ly constituted body. But today we not only have no control over what the Service Comraittce does or says, but much worse, the distribution of other material not written by Friends, not approved by anybody, goes out in the AVE S.C, envelope, carrying the implication that Friends have approved, It can be said that so far as I was concerned when a member of the Board that even then itwas a major occupation to read everything that the