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American Friends Service Committee — Part 18
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eames epee re el ep eo ne
eipippmmglinest. ce project was to bu called "an Market Clinkce" ond
. ite purpose ds ruportedly to help refugees master the techniquy of "selling
“them: selvan dn finding jobs." 1
Stain also cad in January, 1943, that the A¥SG wan affiliated
wth thraa other organizations Antarustod in the refipee provien, nausly,
the National fiefirea fotvicts Mee, the Cotholic Corrittes for detugeas and
the Christlan Cosalttes for huftgeos,.
In 1943 the aFso wir reported to have handled refuges matters for.
the Antie-Fanelst Eefupee Commlttce which wis said to have bern rormead da”
April, 1942 throiwh an aniravstion of the United American Spuviat Aid
Comuliies, the Mailed Uriter'a comlttes ond the stwrican Cowuttue te cave
Eotuvcea. the Covitteets program contecplated tha reseve ant cebabllitation
of CU ed ands at Fetw,cus and os there of the Intermbional Trivade., It wes
wndetia and tha Ce mtniet Farts in Lue
ne re oe a errr ole a@bd in
a oo eek ee Ce ares ramen a 2 ware
Unidad 2 “tates 49 “'repor tod. to have dona’ od. 62,00 toward the Comiittiee'a work
on January 23, 19436
A member of tha APCS in Philadelphia wag yoportad in 1943 by a
confddential source to have nereed Lo ret an appointment with les. Noosavelt
for tvo rabble who were denirous of soli citing hor agsietance in scouting
the release of tha formor Lithuanian Vice Chancellor of Jevich extrustiony,
who was said to have escaped from LAthuanta inte ftussha so that he inight cong
to oither Tneland or the United States, This sourca stated that this came
wimber of tha arganisation lid seirht the validation of three or four pass~
porte fer sone reruyoes through Lorner Governor licrbeart Lebngn for passage
from Lisbon to North Africae
~ . - - - =
2) «Care ef the Refugees in the Aserlear,
It wae ptatod that Seatteryood Hostel waa founded 4n April, 1939
near Vest Branch, Tova, at the olte of an old Quaker academy, for. purely.
huwnitarian purposes, namely:
\ HL, Because of. the Qualer altruiatioc interest in persecuted people
abroad,
2. To upheld to the refugee obtLondingy Seattergood, the snordean
tradition of Agylua for perseaulad poople.
3, To take the Huropoun refucee from the contested ares of Row York
where Lhe tromaniouins concentration ef alleans oud rafuiees tends
to miko Aimeios hostile to then, and Lo placa them in a rose thinky
settlad arca whore they could core oaslly edopt thoiisulvans to tier
now moda of Life. .
4. To fmerieaniza those rafugoan as aoon na posnible.
5. To rowbilitate them in gome useful profeesion by taansplintineg
thoir gitll inte sore American oceupattun.”*
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