A-C, 1948

Academy of Arts and Sciences (M. Hess). Los Angeles, [honorary degree of the Academy conferred on Rufus M. Jones], 1948 July 3; "American Friend" (Errol Elliott, editor). Richmond, Indiana, [has never read anything by Rufus M. Jones more moving than his most recent article for the "American Friend"], 1948 February 24; American Friends Fellowship Council (Hannah Stapler). [current transactions and personnel business of the Fellowship Council], 1948 April 23; American Friends Service Committee - Peace of God in Jerusalem (F. Ollendorf). [sends names of those Palestinians and Jewish people holding highest office], 1948 January 13; American Friends Service Committee - Peace of God in Jerusalem (Louis Finkelstein, President, Jewish Theological Seminary of America). [will gladly meet with Rufus M. Jones; suggests Reinhold Niebuhr and Moshe Davis as other attenders], 1948 February 11; American Friends Service Committee - Peace of God in Jerusalem (Harry Emerson Fosdick) to Palestinian and Jewish Leaders in Palestine. [statement of hope that a “Truce of God” can be established], 1948 February 27; American Friends Service Committee - Peace of God in Jerusalem (Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop Eivind Beggrav, Primate, Church of Norway; Isaac Herzog, Chief Rabbi. [statement of hope that a “Truce of God” can be established, signed by Archbishop Athenagoras], 1948; American Friends Service Committee - Peace of God in Jerusalem (Elmore Jackson). [Archbishops of Canterbury and New York have addressed a letter to London Times similar in content], 1948 March 24; American Friends Service Committee - Peace of God in Jerusalem. Letters of regret: Cardinal Spellman; Henry Knox Sherrill, Bishop of Episcopal Church to the American Friends Service Committee statement of concern, 1948; American Friends Service Committee - Peace of God in Jerusalem (Elmore Jackson). [has had a discussion with the Vice-Chairman of the Arab Higher Commission who says the American Friends Service Committee statement is pro-Jewish because there are more Palestinians than Jewish people in Jerusalem and the Palestinians would not be willing to make concessions in Jerusalem if Jewish people didn’t make concessions in Tel Aviv], 1948 April 16; American Friends Service Committee - Peace of God in Jerusalem (Clarence Pickett). [Pickett was asked by representatives of the UN to serve as Commissioner of Jerusalem. He refused and instead Harold Evans will go and C. Reed Cary as counselor to the Commissioner], 1948 May 17; The Annals (Thorsten Sellin). [would Rufus M. Jones write review of book on Swedenborg] Review published July, 1948, 1948 March 16; Bryn Mawr College (Katharine McBride), 1948; Bryn Mawr College (Charles J. Rhoads)[Bryn Mawr College will establish the Rufus M. Jones chair of Philosophy and Religion], 1948 April 20; Cadbury, Henry J. [has found source in which George Fox is called a cordwinder], 1948 June 6; Cadbury, William W. Canton, China, [printed letter of events from Lingnan University], 1948 May 1; Catchpool, Corder and Gwen. London, [just returned from service in Germany], 1948 January 26; Clark, Glenn. [Rufus M. Jones “can represent the peace of the world more than anyone living today”], 1948 April 30