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Office M femore, dum ¢ UNITED STAT ‘GOVERNMENT ees DATE: May 18, 1955 . Lt SUBJECT: . REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION REGARDING (“APPLICANTS FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOY MENT.----~—-—— BY LEWIS M. HOSKINS, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY wy OF THESAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE - GENERAL APPLICANT MATTER I saw Mr. Lewis vis yA hashing’ Executive Secretary of the American Friends Scrvice Committee, and C, Reed’ Cary, a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Personnel Committee of the American Friends Servic Committee. He is also Vice President in charge of Industrial Relations, Leeds and. Northrop, 4901 Stanton Avenue, Philadelphia 44, Pennsylvania, : OMe, Hoskins opened the conversation by pointing ‘out that they are being contacted by five or six Government agencies each week; that they keep an . accurate record of the contacts; that he thinks the contacts involve about eight - or so individuals, The contacts for the most part deal with conscientious tp eee objector cases, loyalty cases and applicant investigation cases. He pointed out that ‘for sometime they have followed the policy of checking their personnel records and - personaliy interviewing everyone in the American Friends Service Committce knowir the. subjéct of the investigation and then preparing a written statement setting forth their estimate of the individual. Hoskins stated that they have become more and more concerned because of their religious scruples about what they are doing; name! ‘passing judgment on integrity, loyalty and such traits of character which are difficull '* indeed. They are becoming more and more fearful of the propriety of their position . dn arriving at a conclusion on opinions, ideas and thoughts of their people; that + “they wé 3% Biving consideration to changing their policy.and-were-in the formative —— ,btage of discussing it and they wanted to come to the Bureau to assure us of exactly - what their motives were and their reasons with the hope that we would fully understar .., thejr position. ; Lo: ey; 4 - os a, veh bee 4 ~mN I pointed out that in the first instance the Bureau was not concerned » with thoughts, ideas and opinions; that in our investigations we did not seck judgment as such because “who are we as mortals to sit in judgment on anyone;" that we —- Mere interested primarily in facts; that perhaps in communicating questions when the