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" ....The Comnitteets efforts for the past year have been directed toward questioning, evaluating, and inquiring into our vresent program and vrobing. new ereas of interest end future work. "Te study sugsests that as e result of relief and reconstruction ficasures carried on in different parts of the world over the past 31 years, the Committee might, in addition to its interest in these matters, interest itself more definitely in improving the political, economic, and social relations among peoples as e@ part of its peace- MAKING. eas "Although we are unable to go into detail here about how we arrived at these Cecisions, we might mention two events which have influenced our decision to augment our work in the international field. One was the passage of the first peacetime draft law in the history of the United Stetes, and the other the increasing tension between Russia and the United States, which is accompanied by bitterness and near-~- hysterie in tnis country. | “Therefore, we feel impelled to do all in our pover to encourege a course of political ection which - respects the sacredness of individuals. We must resist militarization and war wherever it is. We will-aid the sufferers on either side, but we are constrained to try and make peace with the opposing forces, “We are working in both Communist and Nationalist erritory in Chine, es well as in the disnuted arees, Both governments cooperate with us and ello our workers to go fiecly throveh their lines. “Cen we vse our food relations with both governments in en attempt to bring them together to settle thelr differences over a confercnec table instead of on a battlerround? Ye must try... . "Concerning hussian-fmerican relétions, we recently sent «e pitt of 429,000 vorth of streptomycin ~ 20 -