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ELATIONS” SPONSORED SEMINAR,“ =~" : OSCOW, USSR, NOVEMBER 16-30, 1966 ° "An Introduction to the American Friends Service Com- "3 mittee. In substance, the bocklet states that the -S AFSC -is.an outgrowth of the Religious. Society of... “Friends ; more commonly” “Known as "Quakers"* that® “bMtiere® are approximar ely 240,009 members worid-w ‘ide of | wnom 125, 0090 are in the United States. oes See The AFSC began with a staff of two in 1917. There are now several hundred employed workers in the . @leven regional offices ,and several other area _ offices from coast to coast, as weil as in several ao a _ foreign countries..." + ieee eee ap OME See In the mid-1923s, the AFSC was incorporated, first in Pennsylvania and later in Delaware, with the broad purpose of engaging in religious, charitable, social, philanthropic and relief work in the United States ‘and in foreign countries on behaif of the Religious cr 7 can or ae eo Tne AFSC does not y to advance any particular political theory 7 but believes that "non-visient attitudes and 2 etices would ereate their own - ~a- w = bpenificent res f rt 2 hr zn 2987 the .ccel Feace Frist? wes ziven pointy; =: : the ASC and its British ccunterpert, the Friends Service Council. vy APSC sregrams have evolvec ; with @ gustained relation Sur govermmatt. ag for examctl p@raticn aAcmlalsiscaiiin ine. {orcs originated witha tne AFSC anc was Later used as si a guide in setting up a United States Government spon- j # mo. Ta co ie a TAR eg see BB am a 7 “so . ello