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_ AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE,’ WORLD AFFAIRS CAMP, PAINTED POST, NEW YORK, AUGUST 22 - 29, 1964: t or two of the Negro students present had been to the Soviet Union on this tour th 8 past summer. "He told a discussion group that he had taken the United States Hiler Tour this summer, during which he spent a month in a region of Kentucky, where all the people had to eat was flour and lard. ‘They had to’ walk one-half mile to get water. There were no modern conveniences, and no work for the men. He esked MIROSLAV if there were such pockets of ' poverty in Czechoslovakia. t "(MIROSLAV said no - there was no unemployment, no shortages, because the state could plan ahead and forestall such conditions. If there were areas that needed more workers, labor was shifted there from other slower areas). "LARRY discussed the book, 'Fail Safe,! saying that od wee ar eT ee SE OF istet . 4t showed how simple it would be for nuclear ‘accidents, resulting in total destruction. When the talk shifted to self-defense, he said he could go along with the idea of not fighting to defend himself, but he wondered if he could sit idly by if one of his friends were attacked. He said the United States ‘~ ghould disarm unilaterally, for we knew the Soviet Union would never risk world opprobrium by attacking an unarmed nation. It was he who © asked GELY the question about the economic - impact of disarmament, which was a direct mis- representation of my reply regarding United States! views on the same issue. ~~ "Ina program the group presented, he ‘read - after -- Yepeatedly emphasizing how much it meant to him - @ poem, entitled 'I Am Waiting,! taken from the