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~ "as io ) | - i . - FDAEC (Revg 7216-2) - oe i a . | « oS - a ‘ u , a r tT core, Fo oe _—_——_ PES ERS GT INST OG . L. Eakins bo Waisa ee . j a ee le a pene . \ a . oo 4 N Barc. 26, [bit ma pranci:cue. enc three adhe: Friencs loon go atait. from. Punseoiae t¢ Washington to GIT a concert, abou: the Civil War Cirecuv io President Lincoln. On Feoruin 15. 166. my husLing and Jrock » cain from New York uw Wasiingion 1 join b7. Fritnd: from thirrveeven Bates. Canada. and the Disirict of Columbiz in « “Friends Conference anc Vigi! on the Wer in Vietnam.” convened by the Frieuc: Coordinating Comminee on Peace. The conierence was a Getph meaningiul one to ali who participatece. Unfortunately we arrived tow late to hear what We Wert [Gic Was an eactiens talk on “Friends Facing the Challenge of War Today” by Same! Levering ‘chairman of the Board of Christian Social Service of Friends United Meet ing. but we did reach there in time to hear Stephen G. Car} of the American Friends Service Committee speak on “hey, Policy Approaches in Southeast Asia.” He said that as our present policies had not worked out, the government had simply escalated them! The people of Vietnam, he added, feel that a new day is coming, and even though, in their poverty’ and misery, they do not know what this new day will be, they “want to be a part of it Our premise that we mus: make a stand Or the rest of the world will fall is a false one, as is our theory thar we can go out to win the people with food while at the ame time destroying them with force. ‘Mrs. Kiyoko Cho, exchange professor at Princeton from International University in Tokyo, speaking on “How Asians Regard U. $. Policy,” said that 75 per cent favor a ceasefire and that she is cisturbed about so much news of escalation and so lide understanding of social problems. She spoke of the great social changes, such as ‘votes for women, that came about “an Japan after World War IJ {though they had started befare), ‘and of the great push toward learning in China, where any. ne who can tread is trying to teach others, If America coul only understand, she said, U. §. polis migh: be diferent Holland Hunter, economist anc author from Haverford . [College, considered the question: “How Shall the United 2 @States Deal with Communism?” In the next few years, be said, millions of people—poor, hungry, eurbulent, envious, poorly " @ducated, desperate—-will rise in a surge of action, economic -pfessure, and politica) desires. Our role should be one of reconciliation, but we are under a severe disadvantage, for our, inheritance is a colonial past and our background is rich {comparatively}, educaed, white, and healthy. Outsiders cannot +, effect social sevolutions for others, but we must jearn all we: can abour them and help to solve their great problems in monviolent, humane ways. Eilecn Brinton Waring. whose drawings illustraung “Four Friends Drop in on Lincoln” (excerpu from her grandfather's journal) ap- - peared in the Farexps Journat of May J5, 1965, is a New York fformerly Philadelphia) Friend and artist. Her Teper! on the con- erence and vigil in Washington is augmented by several paragraphs . Yaken from another report writsen by Sally Honan, alfo:2 N —_ ——= ee —— wrciciie F "1 ie Bpopes, Tith Srl Bite: i | 146, 17 — "Friends Jow Priladelphis pow: 3/15/66 Edition: Vol. 12 N Avthor: Eileen B.War: Editor: Prances Willi Tale: 6Brown rae sr: Clapsifticatian: Sebmitting Office: __ PE co Being lovestigated {(0t-H BG2 —