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Great were the pressures upon the President, the State Department, Great Britain to put humanity first, the fate of the last great European democracy second. The American Friends [Quaker] Service Committee (Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite charity), the Commission for Polish Relief, Inc., Herbert Hoover pleaded for humanity. Most influential of these voices belonged to Herbert Hoover, who during and after World War I distributed $5,234,028,208* worth of relief to Europe. Mr. Hoover announced that his European Food Distribution Commission had asked Great Britain and Germany to consent to U. S. aid. Said he: "There...
Summoned before a London tribunal, Conscientious Objector Frederick Stephen Temple, nephew of the Archbishop of York, was exempted from combat service on religious grounds. Quaker Temple, an ambulance driver in Norway and Finland, desired to remain with his unit for the duration of World...
Perennial problem of the Friends, who are militant pacifists, is War. Last week they reaffirmed their pacifism, told young Friends how they could avoid military drill at college,* sent Quaker Paul Comly French to Washington in vigorous protest against the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill now before Congress...
Never primarily evangelists, Quakers have lately scrutinized converts more carefully than ever, have delayed the admission of many a draft-age applicant. Their fear: if a large number of new Quakers should presently appear before the draft boards, lifelong Quakers might be refused the noncombatant duties which most were permitted in World War I. Good illustration of Quaker methods is the American Friends Service Committee, of which pink-cheeked, cricket-playing Philosopher Rufus Matthew Jones, 77, is chairman, and bucktoothed, towheaded Clarence Evan Pickett executive secretary. Organized in 1917 to clear up what mess it could in World...
Last week serious-minded, serious-mannered Quaker delegates opened their business sessions at Cape May with silent periods of meditation, conducted meetings with as little fuss as they do their worship. Exception: a speech by well-loved Frank Aydelotte (who last month left the presidency of Quaker Swarthmore College to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J.) discussing Clarence Streit's Federal Union. His listeners applauded Dr. Aydelotte so loudly that other Friends, surprised, left round-table discussions upstairs, hurried to see what was the matter...