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American Friends Service Committee — Part 29

77 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Jan 14, 1955 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: American Friends Service Committee · 76 pages OCR'd
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é | (Quakers Plan | Trip to Russia’ Six Will Make Good-Will Visit Sf& American Quakers are go- ing to the Soviet Union for a month's good-will visit, it was _ announced today. . L« ‘The leader of the delegation is Charles E. Pickett, exectitive sec- retary emeritus of the Amorican Friends Service Comntittee,: “which is sponsoring the irip. | A business man, an editor, a professor of Russian and two: other AFSC officials will make: jup the delegation. : | “Many American Friends have | ja strong desire to renew co i jtacts that have existed for years, j igaid Pickett. “it seems aesirably | ito have a aelegauon represeuys ine ‘not the Government bu ork-a-day pebple who will visit ussian people and social experi- gs when they return.” The trip comes at approximate- ‘Jy the same time, Pickett said, as the publication of a report, “Speak Truth to Power,” which . the service commiltee is issuing: ias.a Quaker search for an alter- [at con to violence in internation- fe and report upon their find- al conflict. Three members of the Gelegation shared in prevaring tthe study. oe ' “Wo hope," said Pickett, “to idiscuss with responsible persons ‘in religious, academi¢ and public taffairs in the Soviet Union the ‘kinds of problems we have al. ‘yeady raised in the United States ‘and elsewhere.” . - The other delepatcs arc Wroe Alderson, former president of the American Marketing Association, William B. Fdgerton, assistant professor of Russian at the Uni-« versity of Michigan; Eleanor Zel- Hiot, assistant to the editor of the Ametican’ Friend; Hush W. foore, finance secretary of the rvice committee, and Stepher . Cary, head of the Anericg, ‘ork of the committee. — le
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