Qua,er Thought and Life Today VOLUME 13 JULY 15, 1967 NUMBER 14 ~T all th, natian• hear the sound by word and writing. Spare no place, spare no tongue nor pen, but be obedient to the Lord God; go through the world and be valiant fo1· the truth upon earth . ... Be patterns, be examples, .. that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone. - GEORGE Fox For note on map Bee page 393 THIRTY CENTS $5.00 A YEAR 382 FRIENDS JOURNAL July 15, 1967 FRIENDS JOURNAL CJhoughts {rom CJurt/e J3aa QUAKER UNITED NATIONS PROGRAM Touchdown After the Whistle F Caesar or Mohammed had done it, history would have I recorded a brilliant victory and generations of schoolchil­ dren would have learned how the boundaries in Palestine looked after the Five Day W ar. But Moshe Dayan is as out of date as a Cyrano on Fifth Avenue, his enemies disarmed by magnificent swordplay but himself and his booty hauled Published semimonthly, on the first and fifteenth of into court. International society, however, being almost equally each month, at 152-A North 15th Street Philadelphia, Pa. 19102, by Friends Publishing Corporatlon (LO 3-7669). out of date as compared with municipal society, Dayan's people Vol. 13, No. 14, July 15, 1967 consider him a hero, and the U.N., the world's fledging instru­ Editor and Manager FRANCES WILLIAMS BROWIN ment of authority, is sore pressed to know how to hand le the Assistant Editors situation his performance has created. EMILY L. CONLON 'RUTH A. MINER Americans are instinctively disciplined to abide by the rules Contributing Editors WILLIAM HUBBEN RICHARD R. WOOD of the game. Yet a widespread attitude in the U.S. these days Advertising Circulation is like that of a feverishly partisan grandstand, whose team MYRTLE M. WALLEN MARIELUISE HEACOCK seemingly has just snatched victory from almost certain defeat BOARD OF MANAGERS with a ninety-five-yard play for a touchdown, and which h as 1965- 1968 not yet waked up to the fact that the referee has called the ball Winifred C. Beer Emerson Lamb Carol P. Brainerd Alfred Stefferud back to where it started because someone was offside. Arthur M. Dewees Daniel D. Test, Jr. Miriam E. Jones Mildred Binns Young At the Emergency Special Session of the U.N. General As­ 1966-1969 sembly, almost every member nation (Israel and the United Benjamin R. Burdsall Ada C. Rose Laurence Jaeger Eileen B. Waring States b eing notable exceptions) is agreed that the first indis­ Walter Kahoe Gordon D. Whitcraft pensable requirement for moving toward peaceful settlement John Kavanaugh Carl F. Wise 1967- 1970 in the Middle East is that Israel should withdraw from the Helen Buckler James R. 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But no copies sent on request. indispensable item can also be conditional; and it is altogether Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Copyright © 1967 by Friends Publishing Corporation. inadmissible under the U.N. Charter that, no matter wh at the Requests to reprint excerpts of more than two hundred provocation, unilateral military seizure should alter territorial words should be addressed to the editor. boundaries. The problem facing the U.N. is how to be true to this Contents principle and yet m ake some changes that are long overdue for the sake of stability. A divided J erusalem, for instance, Touchdown After the Whistle-Quaker U.N. Program 382 h as never m ade sense, nor has the stagnant misery of the Gaza Editorial Comments ................... ................... 383 Strip. As Ambassador Goldberg says, to go back to June 4th The Minimum Quaker- Edmund P. H illpern .... .. ......... 384 will settle nothing. The wisest resources of negotiation and Napalm-Emil M. Deutsch .... ... ........... .... .......... 384 peaceful settlement need to come into play, for might can no Human Nature and the Cold War- ] . William Fulbright . .... 385 More Meaningful Meetings-William P. Taber, Jr . .. ....... 387 longer be the simple arbiter: the world is moving into the era Guilford, an Inverted Precedent-A Letter from the Past . ... 388 of the rule of law. Twenty Years of Affiliation at George School-Kenneth E. T his law is for everywhere. Its imminence affects East Asia Keskinen ....... .. .... .... ... .. ................. ... 389 as well as West. Westmoreland is as vestigial as Dayan. T h eir As Others See Us . 390 two wars are rela ted not primarily because of the great-power Wind-Fred A. Batson ............ ........................ 390 political forces in each but because each is related to the Time for Sharing at World Conference-A lfred Stefferud .... 391 demands of the emerging law. Neither has from now on any "First We've Got to Stand Up" . .......................... 391 solution in local terms because there can no longer be any Book Reviews . 392 "local" international conflicts. Both can b e solved only in terms Friends and Their Friends . 393 that have worldwide application. The escalation of such solu­ Letters to the Editor ...... .. ....... .. ..... .. .. ... .. .... 396 Coming Events . 397 tions leads to world peace. Solutions based on national mili­ Announcements . 398 tary decisions lead to world war. FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827- 1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844- 1955) ESTABLISHED 1955 PHILADELPHIA, JULY 15, 1%7 VoL. 13 - No. 14 Editorial Comments Seek, Find, Share-The Time Is Now! this situation the heritage that Quakerism's age of quiet­ ITH the Fourth Friends World Conference close ism left us-the impression that ours is a closed society­ W at hand, it may not be out of order to wonder has largely broken down, but the ability of Friends to what the Society of Friends and its members may hope meet the needs of seekers is still inadequate. So horrified to gain from such a gathering. have we been at the thought of proselytizing that we have Not organic unity, probably. From the seed that gone to the other extreme, often being unable to give George Fox planted a surprising variety of hybrid plants adequate replies to the questions of seekers who are gen­ have grown, just as the seed planted by Christ is claimed uinely anxious to find out whether Quakerism is the as ancestor by a wilderness of religious growths in which answer to their search. resemblance to a mutual forebear is sometimes hard to In this situation Friends in England have been ex­ detect. There is all the more cause for gratitude, then, perimenting for some time with what, for want of a better that such variegated Quakers can meet together occa­ word, must be called advertising. Emboldened, perhaps, sionally in an eager search for common bonds and com­ by this British example, Friends General Conference is mon purpose. now beginning to venture timidly into a similar program Nor can we quite dare to expect that from this ·gath­ on this side of the Atlantic. How Friends in general feel ering will come any pronouncements so moving and pro­ about the desirability (and the techniques) of inviting found as to shake the earth for miles around, causing inquiries is a question that the coming conference might all differences to be forgotten. (Still, there is no harm do well to consider, for there can be little doubt that for in hoping.) What we ca.n dare to hope for is that in a not a few Friends the natural desire to see their religious world at war, a world where humanity 'seems to have lost society grow is in unconscious conflict with the unad­ its way, Friends· of all persuasions will emerge from the mitted (and unworthy) sa tisfaction it gives them to be conference with a firm new dedication to the ways of part of a small minority group which gai~s a certain dis­ peace. tinction from the very fact that it hardly seems designed Peace (according to a saying quite possibly misquoted to appeal to everybody. · here) begins with me .. In short, we can hardly hope to Anyone who is at all close to Quaker channels ·of in­ be instrumental in bringing peace to a troubled world formation knows that the current need to· face squarely if we do not have peace among ourselves. This is one of the questions of inquirers is a real and growing one. If the most cogent reasons for having conferences. It some­ the Conference can find a way to meet this need it will times seems that, for a body ostensibly devoted to the have performed a real service. value of silence, Quakers go in for an immense amount 900 Bearers of Tidings of talking and conferring. But many a misunderstanding Its principal service, however, must be in the stimulus that developed at a distance has vanished in the warmth that the chosen few who are delegates will carry back to of frank confrontation.