AUGUST IS INTERNATIONAL PACIFIST-GET- TOGETHER MONTH

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August Is International
Pacifist-Get-Together Month
Two extraordinary events bring peace-
workers from around the world to the
USA during the third and fourth weeks
of August-from August 20 to 23 the
International Fellowship of Reconcilia-
tion will hold its first council meeting in
the United States in Nyack, N.Y. and on
August 25 to 31 the War Resisters In-
ternational will hold its first triennial con-
vention in the states in Haverford, Penna.
On August 23 on Saturday afternoon in
Nyack, members and friends of both
groups will meet jointly. At Haverford
College, the greater part of the WRI
program will be devoted to the theme of
liberation and nonviolent revolution in
honor of the 100th anniversary of the
birth of Gandhi.
From India, Japan, Africa, South
America and many of the countries of
Europe, official delegates to the IFOR
will assemble in the FOR's national head-
quarters "Shadowcliff" in Nyack. About
.30 delegates are expected with perhaps as
many observers from North America in
attendance at some sessions.
One of the primary steps to be taken
will be to confirm decisions made at a
special meeting of the council in Oslo a
year ago at which it was voted to broad-
en the theological basis of membership in
the international which had been hereto-
fore confined to those who accepted an
orthodox and conventional Christian
basis.
Another vital matter will be election of
a new general secretary to replace Erwin
Rennart who resigned a year ago. Peter
Eterman of the Netherlands has been
acting general secretary. Other staff and
officers will also be elected by the group.
A third important action scheduled for
discussion will be a new international pro-
gram as proposed by a special committee
headed by Alfred Hassler. It envisions a
series of moves toward a genuine world
community as outlined in a number of
papers.
National and staff reports, possible
changes in structure of the IFOR and
various committee meetings will take up
the balance of the four-day sessions.
Peace Forces Intensifying
Drive to End War in Vietnam
An "escalated autumn offensive"
against the war in Vietnam is being
planned by a new and larger configura-
tion of peace forces, of which the follow-
ing are component parts:
August 17 - Action centering around a
mass march to the summer white house
in Southern California
October 12-15 - Action supporting the
victims of the Chicago repressions of
a year ago, when the trial of the "con-
spirators" opens. An October 15
nationwide moratorium on "business
as usual" is to protest the war-details
later.
November 15 - Mass march on the White
House with a rally nearby. Many plans
in connection with this are being
worked out, under the joint guidance
of Ron Young and Abe Bloom.4 Ron is
being released for a month from the
FOR national staff to work on this.
More in the September issue.
ABM Scored by Catholic Groups;
Resolutions Sent to Senators
Resolutions opposing the Anti-Ballistic
Missile System (ABM) have been sent to
every U.S. Senator by officials of two
Catholic organizations: Pax and the Na-
tional Association of Laymen.
The resolutions expressed "the moral
revulsion" which is growing in the Catho-
lic community against the ABM system.
The statements condemned the "develop-
ment and deployment" of the missiles and
cited a similar. statement by'the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops in the
pastoral letter entitled "Human Life in
Our Day."
"There is certainly a moral dimension
to the question of huge and open-ended
costs of the ABM," the Pax letter said,
"in the face of the poverty and exploding
needs of the cities."
"There is a moral dimension " it added
President Seeks to Purge CIA
Workers who Aided ABM Foes
Momentous decisions such as nuclear
test ban treaties and congressional votes
on anti-ballistic missiles have an annoying
habit of not wishing to wait for deadlines
such as Fellowship's Peace Information
Edition.
Whether or not the Senate rose to the
occasion and turned back President Nix-
on in his stubborn desire to give Secre-
tary Laird and the Pentagon another
big boost along the A-bomb race with
Russia, the full story of the methods used
to force a decision his way still remains
to be spelled out.
The editors of a powerful and reliable
little newssheet "Hard Times" came
through with a real shocker in part of the
inside story of White House activity in
those last feverish weeks before the vote
came.
It seems clear now that Laird's biggest
argument for the deployment of ABM
was a "first strike" scare sedulously man-
ufactured by his office and the military
brass contrary to an authoritative report
by the US Intelligence Board that the
USSR had no such capability or even
plans according to their best estimate. Ac-
cording to "Hard Times' " editors, Henry
Kissinger, the president's assistant for na-
tional security, David Packard, assistant
secretary of defense and Secretary Laird
were all aghast at the intelligence report.
But President Nixon- was angry. More-
over,' he decided that all who delivered
such "unapproved" opinions to CIA Iii-
rector Richard Helms would have to be
purged. He ordered that names of 'all
employees who had worked on the for-
bidden paper as well as any individuals
who were even "aware" of it, be turned
over to the agency's security section, pre-
sumably for investigation by the FBI.
These are baffling times! When the
CIA becomes an ally (even if an unwit-
ting one) of the peacenik in his search
for truth, what does this say about the
goals and methods of a military-loving
administration trying to preserve a pos-
ture of balance?
"to escalating the arms race when ex- "I shall ask for the abolition of the
perts question the workability of the punishment of death until I have the
ABM and point out that its only actual infallibility of human judgment demon-
effect might be to provoke the disaster strated to me."
" --THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Draft violation is reportedly the third
ranking "crime" in the United States ac-
cording to the latest figures available this
year. Out of 37.5 million men registered
with Selective Service, about 1 in 1600
was considered delinquent.
According to a testimony by a former
draft board clerk from two San Jose,
Cal., draft boards, two thousand men
turned in their draft cards to those boards
alone in 1968. The former clerk who
testified at a trial of one of the men, said
that out of those 2,000, only 200 have
been declared delinquent and processed
for induction. He also stated that only
those politically active and known to the
board were singled out for these actions.
Some 50,000 young Americans have
reportedly chosen to live in Canada,
Sweden, and elsewhere rather than be
drafted, according to a recent report in
the Chicago Times. Also, 1,000 draft re-
sisters are now in prison, and another
1,000 have deserted and live in exile.
Thant Urges Haft on Germ Weapons
UN Secretary General U Thant has
called on all governments to agree to halt
development and stockpiling of chemical
and biological agents for warfare "and
achieve their effective elimination from
the arsenal of weapons."
Thant appealed again to governments
to sign the 1925 Geneva Protocol banish-
ing these "dreaded weapons." He also
asked that they clearly reaffirm that the
protocol prohibits the use in war of all
chemical or biological agents-including
tear gas and other weapons that might
be developed.
The United States and Japan are the
only major powers that have not ratified
the protocol, accepted by more than
sixty governments.
Thant made his statement on the basis
of a report from an international panel
of fourteen scientists. The report said
that the potential for developing such
weapons had grown considerably and
warned there was no secure defense
against them even for the richest coun-
tries.
PAMPHLET REPORT PUBLISHED
imprisonment and Torture in South
Vietnam, the searing document on the
state of the Thieu government's totali-
tarian arrest, imprisonment, court and
torture system by Pham Tam, (see Lit
Notes) has been released to the press.
Since the Fellowship does not have a clip-
ping service, it would be immensely help-
ful if you, our readers, could send us any
comment that appears in the local press.
Unless otherwise indicated, all literature is avail-
able from Fellowship Publications, Box 271, Nyack,
N. Y.
Imprisonment and Torture in South Viet-
nam tells the brutal story of the scores of
thousands of men and women civilians now
in South Vietnamese prisons, charged with
"political offenses." Price: 50g. Quantity
prices on request.
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Nonviolent Action-How it Works by
George Lakey is again back in print. This
is a brief, cogent analysis of nonviolence
and its practical use in the affairs of men.
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USA
"Those committed to the cause of equal-
ity must cease to be attached to the roman-
tic idealization of violence ..." says Mul-
ford Sibley in Revolution and Violence.
The pamphlet is available at 250 a copy.
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World Religions and World Peace edited
by Homer lack is a detailed report of the
program and accomplishments of the Inter-
national Inter-Religious Symposium on
Peace which was held in New Delhi in 1968.
Paper: $1.95.
"Thou Shalt Not Poison" by Sydney D.
Rubbo, M.D. discusses the current U.S. use
of chemical agents in Vietnam. Reprinted
from the March, 1969 FELLOWSHIP, it is
available at 100 a copy.
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The violent confrontation of demonstra-
tors and police in Chicago during the week
of the Democratic National Convention is
realistically described in Rights in Conflict.
Contains 200 photographs. Paper: S 1.00.
sSi
The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship has a
new pamphlet Presbyterians for Peace which
describes the FPF position, areas of PFP
involvement, etc. Write for a copy to: Shir-
ley Maynard, FOR, Box 271, Nyack, N.Y.
Vi-IL
Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice
edited by Hugo Adam Bedau provides a
critical perspective on the "politics of crea-
tive disorder." Essays by Martin Luther
King, Milton Mayer, A. J. Muste, Paul
Goodman and others. Paper: $1.95.
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The U.S. Army, which is already un-
der investigation for its shipment of poi-
sonous chemical warfare agents across
the nation, has now been charged with
shipping highly dangerous biological
agents for the past four years.
First hint of the shipments came to
tight during Senate Commerce Subcom-
mittee hearings headed by Senator Vance
Hartke (D.-Ind.) recently. Information
about military biological agents has been
kept secret since the end of World War
II, including information on how such
goods have been shipped from base to
base or from country to country.
According to army regulations issued
in 1965, it explicitly states that as much
as three gallons of a lethal biological
agent carefully packaged, can be shipped
at one time on a commercial carrier with-
out any military escort of any type.
At least three of the warfare agents in
the army's stockpiles are extremely in-
fectious, particularly anthrax, one of the
scourges of the middle ages, which is
capable of killing up to 99 percent of its
victims. The other two are tularemia and
Q fever.
Senate Committee Proposes Halt
in CB Weapons; Cuts Budget
The Senate Armed Services Committee,
in response to Congressional criticism of
the military, has proposed a halt in de-
velopment of chemical and biological
warfare weapons. Accordingly, the com-
mittee cut about $2-billion from the $22-
billion requested by the Pentagon for pro-
curement of weapons and military re-
search and development.
The effect of the committee action, if
sustained by Congress, would be to stop
development of new chemical and biolog-
ical agents as well as the means of deliv-
ering them. Left intact by the committee
were Pentagon programs to develop de-
fenses against chemical and biological
warfare. Defensive measures involve such
things as gas masks, antidotes and the
like.
Significantly, the cut was recommended
by a conservative committee that has been
a defender of military programs.
%F-A Study Team Report
Reading lists and valuable reprints on the Report of The U.S. Study Team on Reli-
related questions of conscription and am- gious and Political Freedom in Vietnam is
nesty arc being made available by a new available in three formats: 1) a Congres-
"Communication Group on Conscription sional Record reprint, with an introduction
and Amnesty." Send $1.00 for the latest col- by Senator Ribicoff, 8 pages, small type, 150
lection to Alfred E. Kuenzli, coordinator, a copy; 2) A 16-page version in larger more
512 North Main Street, Edwardsville, Illi- readable type with the addition of relevant
nois 692025. Also, the FOR order form on Congressional comment, 500 a copy; 3)
materials on the draft and conscientious ob- FOR pamphlet, 37 pages, regular typewriter
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Challenge to Draft Law
The American Civil Liberties Union
has announced a head-on challenge of the
present draft law, contesting that the Se-
lective Service Act itself is unconstitu-
tional. Accordingly, it is pressing the
challenge through forty-seven state affili-
ates in the U.S., several hundred chapters
and nearly a thousand staff and volunteer
attorneys throughout the nation. In addi-
tion to court tests, the Union will work
toward elimination of the draft by Con-
gress and increase its educational efforts
in this area.
John de J. Pemberton Jr., ACLU Exec-
utive Director, in stating the organiza-
tion's position, said:
"Military conscription is a severe in-
fringement of individual liberties, at best
the resort of a nation facing imminent
threat. It must rest upon the interests of
national security, what James Madison
called, `the impulse of self-preservation.'
"We believe that government has the
duty to prove to the public that so drastic
a step as conscription is required today.
No such showing has been made."
BALLET AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER?
Maggi Geddes is not participating in a Mardi Gras but rather celebrating her own conscience with the aid
of torn-up strips of draft board records for confetti in the latest attack upon YSelective from Bradford See account below.
Five women participated in the latest
foray into draft board offices to make
their records inoperable against young
men facing military service. Last month,
in an after-dark expedition into the build-
ing in Manhattan where 13 boards have
their offices, the women pulled out and
shredded 1-A files. They also destroyed
a part of the cross reference system and,
as a final touch, broke the "1" and the
"A" keys of all typewriters.
Parts of the ripped-up files were car-
ried to a rally at Rockefeller Center two
days later when the five women identified
themselves. However only four of the
five were arrested, the fifth, Maggie Ged-
des, formerly on the staff of the Catholic
Peace Fellowship, being inexplicably left
at large, and free to address a meeting of
the Voice of Women in Montreal before
the arraignment of the others took place.
But FBI agents, moving quickly during
the rally, arrested two who said they had
no connection with the planning or exe-
cution of the event: Barbara Webster, sec-
retary to David Dellinger, anti-war leader,
and Linda Forest, wife of James Forest
the CPF executive, now serving a two-
year sentence for draft file destruction in
Milwaukee (see July FELLOWSHIP).
These women were among a number who
picked up the strewn-about fragments of
lunch-hour strollers at the much-photo-
graphed entrance to the skating rink at
Rockefeller Plaza.
In addition to Miss Geddes, the others
were Jill Boskey, Pat Kennedy, Kathy
Czarnik and Valentine Green. Mrs. Green
is an employe of the national office of the
FOR, secretary to Ron Young, director
of Youth work. The six arrested were out
on bail at the time this issue went to
press. They were charged with illegal
possession of government records "with
intent to convert them to their own use."
This is punishable by a maximum of ten
years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine.
Some similar cases have drawn shorter
prison terms.
One variant from most other draft
board actions that the women's group
practiced was to attempt communication
in other ways. They mailed letters to
many of the corporations in the Rockefel-
ler center area to explain their deeds.
Then they followed it up by leafleting at
the office they had raided earlier and in
the various areas covered by the 13
boards.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation nei-
ther recommends nor condemns specific
actions of this kind. We welcome com-
ment on the questions of tactics, strategy
and commitment to nonviolence relating
Judge Rules Capitol Grounds
"On Limits" to Peaceful Demonstrators
Federal Judge Harold H. Greene has
ruled that the Capitol grounds "may not
be declared off limits" to peaceful dem-
onstrators.
The ruling came as a breakthrough
for a group of thirty-four peace demon-
5trators who have been attempting to
read the names of Vietnam war dead on
the East Front steps of the U.S. capitol,
and who have been arrested or harassed
for doing it.
During a recent four-hour vigil by the
group, at least six U.S. Congressmen at-
tended, if for brief periods: James
Scheuer (D.-N.Y.). George Brown (D.-
Cal.), Edward Koch (D.-N.Y.), William
Clay (D.-Mo.), Abner Mikva (D.-Ill.)
and Adam Clayton Powell (D.-N.Y.).
The readings take place every Wednes-
day at the Capitol, and are sponsored by
A Quaker Action Group and the Episco-
pal Peace Fellowship.
COMING IN SEPTEMBER
A special student issue devoted
to the meaning of the rebellion on
campus and the crisis in education
and society. Articles by Staughton
Lynd, Douglas Dowd, William Biren-
baum, Robert Gussner, Gerald Peder-
sen, Charles Lawrence and many
more. Another large issue. Special
editor, this issue: Ronald J. Young.
Place your quantity order now.
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Special consulting offices for conscien-
tious objectors have been established by
the Archdiocese of Freiburg and the Di-
ocese of Augsburg in West Germany.
Such consultation centers have been rec-
ommended for every diocese by the Ger-
man Episcopal Conference.
The staffs of these centers include psy-
chologists, lawyers, military officers, dio-
cesan directors of the Catholic Youth Or-
ganization and priests who specialize in
the problems of youth.
Dear Editors:
In your January issue you printed a fitting
tribute to Norman Thomas, a very cour-
ageous man.
Your readers might like to know that
friends of Norman Thomas have established
a scholarship fund in his memory at Friends
World College, Westbury, New York.
Norman Thomas was interested in the
Idea of a world college as a means toward
world peace, and participated in seminars
here with the students.
Because of his extended illness he was
unable to continue his visits but the discus-
sions will be long remembered.
Persors wishing to honor him in this way
may send contributions to the scholarship
fund; his family will be notified in a suitable
manner.
MRS. LEAN KARPEN
Westbury, N. Y.
FELLOWSHIP
is published monthly by the Fellowship
of Reconciliation. Second class postage
paid at Nyack, N.Y. and at additional
mailing offices. Postmaster: Please send
POD form 3579 to Fellowship, Box 271,
Nyack, N.Y. 10960.
JAMES S. BEST, Editor
DIANE LEONETTI, Assistant Editor
PAUL PEABODY, News Editor
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President Nixon should "make clear
that the United States will not continue
to support any regime in South Vietnam
that is not broadly representative and
does not extend political liberties to its
people," a group of 28 American leaders
led by Arthur S. Flemming, president of
the National Council of Churches, has
said in an open letter to the President.
Citing "demands of the American pub-
lic, the repression in South Vietnam, and
the meagre progress in Paris," the letter
urges additional steps "to press vigorous-
ly toward an early negotiated settlement
of the Vietnam war."
Chief among these steps would be a
"standstill ceasefire" simultaneously with
an agreement to form an interim body
representative of all political, religious
and ethnic groups in South Vietnam,
"and not merely the Government of the
Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional
Revolutionary Government of the Repub-
Iic of South Vietnam." Among the signers
are Andrew Cordier, president of Colum-
bia University; William B. Arthur, edi-
tor of Look; former Ambassador to Japan
Edwin 0. Reischauer; Hans Morgcnthau,
Mrs. Martin Luther King and Congress-
men Conyers, Cohelan and McCloskey.
The wording and composition of the
letter make it clear it was in part inspired
by activities of the U.S. Study Team the
FOR sent to Vietnam.
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What is the difference between throw-
ing a baby onto a fire and throwing fire
onto a baby? To my mind the only differ-
ence is about 25,000 feet.
-LORD DONALD E. SOPER
former president of the
Methodist Conference,
London
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eliglous and rUIILIcal
freedom in Vietnam
"We are all indebted to the dedicated
men and women involved with this proj-
ect for the time and effort they have
devoted to this endeavor. Everyone con-
cerned with the present and future wel-
fare and freedom of the people of South
Vietnam should study this report closely."
-SENATOR ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF
of Connecticut
"I commend this thoughtful and
searching report to all members of Con-
gress."
-CONGRESSMAN OGDEN R. REID
of New York
"I commend the members of the study
team for their thorough and thoughtful
report . . . the four individuals now in
trouble with the Thieu government were
among those talked to by the American
study group."
-CONGRESSMAN ABNER J. MIKVA
of Illinois
"I found the report of the U.S. Study
team illuminating as well as disturbing.
I believe the team's diligence will stimu-
late our colleagues to study its report."
- CONGRESSMAN RICHARD D. MC CARTHY
of New York
Information Needed: Violence
in History Texts
Anyone who has ideas, suggestions,
reference materials or anything else perti-
nent to the treatment given violence in
American history textbooks (especially
5th, 8th and 11th grade texts), please
write to: Lou Silverstein, 713 W. Barry,
Chicago, III. 60657.
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