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NOPC Northern California Peace Council FCL Friends Committee on legislation DP? Daily Peoples orld = It shovld be noted that information characterizing various persons mentioned in this report is located in a separate section at the end of the details. — A. Circunstarces Surrounding the Formation of. the AFSC tee advised on September 7, 1955, that the Religious | Society of Friends is the Quaker Church. He said that during World “ar . J the Quakers decided they should go to Frarce to help rebuild the French villazes which had been devastated by the war. He stated that it was at this time that a group of Friends, ie Quakers, got together and formed the AFSC, which was set up as a tax exempt education and social service to help rebuild French villages. 4 ema stated on September 1, 1955 that the AFSC was one of the gruups which had been set up by the Quaker Church as a practical organi.za~- _-tion to carry their beliefs to the world. It is a separate body from the Quaker Church and his many merbers who are not Friends but who are either '. asked by the Church to help or are desirous of helping in the socjal and - educational work of the Church. He said that the friends always try to = 7 Seerthat | the AFSC “is nct-carried into other- fields by the nenberstho are_____ not friends. vw Ce Identities of _Officers, Go Governing Body and Sponsors On November 13, 1950 RUSSELL F. JORGENSEN advised the San i « Francisse Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, by letter, that he was the Asscciate Sccretary of the Northern California Region AFSC, 1839 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Calif.