Box 7

Scope and Contents “Conference on Social Action for Men in Civilian Public Service and other pacifists,” scheduled April 12-18, 1943. Fuson was among the sponsors of a group of CPS men who hoped to develop at plan for more effective and alternative pacifist action and service. Major General Lewis B. Hershey placed a ban on CPS men attending the conference, and it was delayed by a week. Fuson corresponded with the major planners and proposed that it would be better to delay the conference until issues were...

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Letters to campers, issues 1,3,5,7,11.

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Weekly newsletter sponsored by the Northern New England Regional Conference.

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Newsletter reports on the Conference and its follow-up from the Powellton, MD, CPS camp,

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AFSC relief organization, finances of China Unit. Seven COs started trip to China to serve Friends Ambulance, but were recalled before they arrived because of the Stearns rider.

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Chungking project, forms, etc.

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Congress passed an appropriations bill which ended financing for CO education in colleges and foreign service. Members of the China Unit were reassigned, Fuson to Big Flats, N.Y.

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Letters, etc., from other CPS men, topics are personal, camp, and opinions, such as regarding postwar conscription. Letter Jan. 1, 1946, is from AFSC (Fred Tolles and Bob Beach) asking CPS participants to help build an archive of materials

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After the Congressional bill ending CO foreign service, the China Unit men were returned to their camps, but continued to informally train in hopes of their eventual service in China. Fuson corresponded with other COs and others about re-establishing the program. The Brethren were interested in Sept. 1945.

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Mimeographed memos concerning various relief efforts in China