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American Friends Service Committee — Part 30

122 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Jan 15, 1955 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: American Friends Service Committee · 121 pages OCR'd
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Although he has by his ow statement never knowingly had membership in any organizations cited as subversive by the Attorney General of the United States, he has cooperated with some of these organizations at various times in the past where their purported foals seemed to coincide with his ow. The informant ____ said that while CU ISRA OY Ta humanitarian zeal has sometimes caused hin to be imprudent in accepting the ostensible motives of others wit hout question. Through his intense desire to achieve universal peace, he has also lost. sight of the danger inherent in theCommunist conspiracy to dominate the earth.. & loyalty is believed to be above reproach, his .. The June 2, 1955, Final One Star edition of the "Evening Bulletin,” a Philedelphia daily newspaper, page 5, column 3, carried an article captioned SQUAKER GROUP CALLS VIOLENCE MORS EVIL THAN COMUNISH.® This article stated that the AFSC had on that date released a book prepared by the AFSC called _ SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER.‘t A summary of this book stated that it is an unsound premise that Communism is the greatest evil of the day. The greatest evil, according to the summary, is ‘tcomiitment to violence!! on the part of any nation and "the military code it holds that man is an instrument of the state, Tne sumary stated 4Comminism applies this code to all of life but the West is not free of it.'t According to this article, the book, "SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER advocates peaceful or pacificist approaches to world tensions. , ‘On Mey 4, 1955, Confidentiel Informant T-4, who has furnished ‘ yellable inform ation in the past, made available a copy of an announcement of the Annual Institute of International Relations to be held at the Commnity Club, Hershey, Pa., on Aoril 30, 1955, under the auspices of the AFSC. This announcerent listed the faculty of this institute as being composed of I. F. STE, I ALLAM TSTisou, and TOM WARDL®. The announcerent contained a brief * deseripti on of these iniyidusls which is being set out as follow: ay Rips ces (CLP EA IEE A, "fas “to iT Ps TOE: Journalist. Editor of TI. F. STONE'S WEEKLY, % eee Ee Washington: Formerly one of the editors of the ‘'Nation.? Hirote = a for P.H. and_the New York Daily Compass. Jn the spring of 1946 was the first newspaper man to travel the Jewish Underground | from Poland to Palestine as an illezal refugee, the experiences he later described in his book, ‘Underground to Palestine,’ Also author of the tHidden History of the Korean War.? WHALLAM TENNYSON: Member of the London Yearly Meeting of Friends; he was a menber of the Friends Anbulance Unit. Worked two years .f,. in India, where he lived consistently at the village level and fee" spoke amd read Bengali. Was the writer of *Minds in Movement,? a Quaker study of Asia and the West. Author of the just published, tindiats Walking Saint,t a study of Vinova Bhave. o~h~ i : — . i sence re _ . _ a . ___ ene ‘ : ~ ’ bed , fe ry i * + 1 - a - = _—.- a _ — a ™ ft ™ ft ~ “« uo ¢ . cy ~
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