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American Friends Service Committee — Part 29
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| (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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