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Will be teaching soon at the Congregational high school summer camp on "Christian Youth faces militarism." Remarkable experience at Pendle Hill. "As you say it is incredible == and pretty funny, too -- that Roosevelt and Stalin and Churchill are three little peace-loving bedfellows together now. I guess this change will jolt all but the most inane of the remaining communist bedfellows to their senses -- though Russ writes that he kidded Seguel about it, and Seguel thought it was just fine. I trust it will keep you out of the communist dragnet to which I have felt you wee susceptible... I thank Go we are rid of them as pacifists. I confess I laugh every time I think of all the communists who joined the army to sabotage and who are going to have to fight instead." Recently swung to the position that pacifists must actively confront war now. Discussion of Carter's pacifism: pacifists mus "become more and more revolutionary and fifth column. I personally see no liklihood, at least in the immediate future, of leading a normal life... I see every liklihood that these CPS camps are just temporary, and that they'll be concentration camps pretty soon." Concerned for Carter for the "constant Jim Crowism" he will face in the army which "will create a hell or turmoil in your soul, and will leave one of two results. Either you will end up cynical and bitter, or you won't be able to stand it."

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