Anybody know if this is true?
I got this in my email:

Resistance with a history of success--from the
Mennonite community

Place 1/2 c. uncooked rice in a small plastic bag (a
snack-sized bag or sandwich bag work fine). Squeeze
out excess air and seal the bag. Wrap it in a piece of
paper on which you have written: " 'If your enemies
are hungry, feed them.' Romans 12:20 Please send this
rice to the people of Iraq; do not attack them."

Place the paper and bag of rice in an envelope (either
a letter-sized or small padded mailing envelope - both
are the same cost to mail) and address them to:

President George Bush
White House - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500

Attach $1.06 in postage. (Three 37 cent stamps equal
$1.11)

Drop this in the mail TODAY. It is important to act
NOW so that President Bush gets the letters asap. In
order for this protest to be effective, there must be
hundreds of thousands of such rice deliveries to the
White House. We can do this if we all forward this
message to our friends and family. If every Mennonite
and every Church of the Brethren household sent one of
these, and the tens of thousands of persons from
outside these churches who think war is a mistake also
send them...we are hundreds of thousands of people!
There is a positive history of this protest! Read on!

"In the mid 1950s, the pacifist Fellowship of
Reconciliation, learning of famine in the Chinese
mainland, launched a "Feed Thine Enemy" campaign.
Members and friends mailed thousands of little bags of
rice to the White House with a tag quoting the Bible,
"If thine enemy hunger, feed him." As far as anyone
knew for more than ten years, the campaign was an
abject failure. The President did not acknowledge
receipt of the bags publicly; certainly no rice was
ever sent to China. "What nonviolent activists only
learned a decade later was that the campaign played a
significant, perhaps even determining role in
preventing nuclear war. Twice while the campaign was
on, President Eisenhower met with the Joint Chiefs of
Staff to consider US options in the conflict with
China over two islands, Quemoy and Matsu. The generals
twice recommended the use of nuclear weapons.
President Eisenhower each time turned to his aide and
asked how many little bags of rice had come in. When
told they numbered in the tens of thousands,
Eisenhower told the generals that as long as so many
Americans were expressing active interest in having
the US feed the Chinese, he certainly wasn't going to
consider using nuclear weapons against them."

From: People Power: Applying Nonviolence Theory by
David H. Albert, p. 43, New Society, 19.

Thank you all for being people of hope, people of
faith.

So often I get emails like this that quote historical "facts" that are completely bogus. I'd like to believe this, so if anyone can verify this, please email me at Nuadha_Silverhand at yahoo dot com.