The American Friends Service Committee, 1947–49: the Cold War's Effect

Ingle, H. Larry

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“…(AFSC Mission and Values 1994) With the onset of the cold war, the AFSC began to publish their views on US foreign policy (cf. Ingle 1998;A. Smith 1998).…”

Section: The American Friends Service Committeementioning

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Quaker Travels, Fellow Traveler?

Tadajewski

2009

Journal of Macromarketing

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This article will add an important detail to our knowledge of Wroe Alderson’s life, namely his journey to Russia at the height of the cold war and the subsequent intelligence gathering efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) following Alderson’s return from Russia in 1955. It does this by situating the text (AFSC 1956) that resulted from the journey in its historical context, connecting the trip to Russia with the Quaker value system that motivated the expedition. These values are, in turn, related to the files of the FBI via a brief review of the relevant volumes of FBI files that referred to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)—the group that Alderson traveled to Russia with. Using the Quaker publication coauthored by Alderson that details the journey to Russia, this article reconstructs the arguments found in that text. Finally, the author examines why Alderson attracted the attention of the FBI. His characteristic willingness to critique the assertions of a party of Soviet individuals with whom he met, as well as support for Alderson from an unknown Quaker associated with the FBI, would ensure that his credentials as an American patriot were never in danger.

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“…(AFSC Mission and Values 1994) With the onset of the cold war, the AFSC began to publish their views on US foreign policy (cf. Ingle 1998;A. Smith 1998).…”

Section: The American Friends Service Committeementioning

confidence: 99%

Quaker Travels, Fellow Traveler?

Tadajewski

2009

Journal of Macromarketing

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The Quakers and the American Friends Service Committee: Origins of the Quakers and Quaker Ideology

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Joffe²

2013

Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief

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A Friend in Need: Esther B. Rhoads, Quakers, and Humanitarian Relief in Allied Occupied Japan, 1946–52

Mayo¹

2016

U.S.-Japan Women's Journal

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Following World War II, voluntary private charities and relief organizations played an important role in reaching out to the desperate and needy in Europe. Asia, however, was largely an afterthought until the creation in early 1946 of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). It was organized as a single regional or umbrella agency to represent and coordinate the private relief activities of eleven-ultimately thirteen-North American charitable and religious organizations for operation in Japan and Korea. The core members were the Church World Service (Protestant), American Friends Service Committee (Quaker, also known as the Religious Society of Friends), and War Relief Services (Catholic). In addition, a Quaker held the top administrative position of chairman in LARA's New York headquarters. 1 Central to the narrative is Esther B. Rhoads (1895Rhoads ( -1979, a prewar Quaker missionary teacher in Japan who returned in June 1946 as one of only two authorized representatives of LARA. In addition, she worked for one of the constituent bodies, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). 2 Her contribution to voluntary relief in post-defeat Japan, although crucial, well-known, and deeply appreciated at the time, has

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The American Friends Service Committee, 1947–49: the Cold War's Effect

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Quaker Travels, Fellow Traveler?

Quaker Travels, Fellow Traveler?

The Quakers and the American Friends Service Committee: Origins of the Quakers and Quaker Ideology

A Friend in Need: Esther B. Rhoads, Quakers, and Humanitarian Relief in Allied Occupied Japan, 1946–52

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