Pacifists Discuss Proposal of Aid To Red Chinese

College pacifists will begin campaign plans tonight for sending free American agricultural aid to Communist China.

A spokesman for the group, John B. Butcher '57, said that "there will probably be opposition to the program, although I think our organization is behind the idea." Butcher is chairman pro-tem for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which was organized last year by 20 University pacifists to protest "colonial intervention in Asia."

The free aid proposal follows closely the New England pacifists' project urging the President to send "free quantities of surplus food to China to aid the people now suffering from flood and famine." Butcher hopes that the idea will pick up support, and "help the F.O.R. get on the road again."

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"We may even circulate a petition," Butcher continued, "but the imprisonment of the 13 American fliers in China may really set some people against us."

The proposal for aid to China includes a vigorous drive to "bring an outpouring of letters to the President." Butcher said that a letter campaign "would probably have small sacks filled with rice" added as a symbol of the plan.

Tonight's meeting is the first activity of the Fellowship of Reconciliation since the club lost last year's president, Edward A. French, a conscientious objector who spearheaded a petition for non-intervention in Indo-China.