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Regrets Caleb cannot come to the FOR Council meeting. Discussion of the situation at the Lapine Civilian Public Service Camp: assignment of jobs to radicals; physical sabotage. Men at Lewisburg: "The spirit of bitterness will not produce the fruits of truth any more than it will produce the fruits of peace." Conscription and trying to make it work; super-cooperators, non-cooperators. Wants the FOR to continue to be a place where all sides can work together; unity is paramount. A similar problem has just arisen within the War Resisters League. Unity and the process of getting unity. The same issues arise in race relations: "When the matter has been brought up by our southern members for example, we have argued that there was no compulsion upon them to adopt the same program, that individuals and groups within the Fellowship were free to express their convictions and concerns in their own way; but that those who felt deeply the need of revolutionary action must be trusted, must be given an opportunity to implement their concerns, etc., and that the Fellowship would be poorer and the religious pacifist movement generally in no wise strengthened, if such people had to go outside the Fellowship in order to carry on the revolutionary work to which they felt called... I believe that the experiment in having religious pacifists work together, expressing themselves variously, within one fellowship is tremendously important... If the experiment is mechanically destroyed from the left, the result will be that we have a...
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