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American Friends Service Committee — Part 30
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‘Director, FBI. 7
ee and the sending, of food and medicines into the East should _
' , holp. At vork canps there in concern as to who from the
Fast will tea there to sce if they can sneak frecly. The
Geneva friends work to tring Fast and seat tovether. Lvery-
one wants reunification, tut how far it is governed. by a
fecline of patriotisa which is ezotional and may be used to
_4ntensify the political action, one cannot say. Friends
fecl that wnification of Gersnany is not necessary for peace
and may, indeed, work acainst peace. It is beticr to get
at peace through mutual understanding. the differences be-
treen attitades and experiences in Last and sest is so
greoent thet there is noa no basis for safe umification.
t* Aw wisi Ww Wid, Ww Uk ite her me > ake’ rey we A ES a
East Germany is Protestant, while the west is 509-50 Catholic
and Protestant. In the fast, peonle are infused with iceas
from the U55R, especially on labor, anc the cst is antegon=
istic to then. If tha two cone tozetner by unification or
. by relaxing borders, it will pose rrave protlens, not only
for Cermans, but for the rest of the world. Vor experience
leads us to telieve that [eat amd test must go through a
long period of trying to widersetand each other tefore
unification in acy real serse will be safe. Mot to end
*. . on a note of pessinisa, the way the AFSC works is to sec
the divine in peosle and to address ourselves to thate
The ATSC trusts its worxers and pives then Mberty to |
work for peace in their own way, but they are rice in
sending us out in teams, not aicne, and no move is to be
made miess or until the groun has reeehed Puli unaninity
‘Gn believine that the move is right. We realized thet ne
‘worked not alone but were part or a preat etree ai of people
. : betteraent.
"0. Hoa can we help?
. A. Financially. By reading about Communism = ve are 422
- inforned in this coumtry.
“Q. hat would you recom: nend our reading?
A. Tho Communist Vanifestoy writings of Hare y ) Stalin, etc.
Q, When do you give a pereon up?
(14° “Ae aver, unless he insists upon ite
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