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JIERICH’ FRIESDS SERVICE COMMITEE pe cel rc ee Rl Nee ra His reply was that there hes teen on international tie since the dissolution of the Third International, but that the CPUSA would like to see such ties réein- stated. There has been a great deal of debate on this matter and still is, he said. When asked about the limitations placed upon artists in the Soviet Union, he replied thst the freedom of -the artist is relative. The ertiss is a Socialist country has a cervain foc1al respensibllity; his talent must be used for a social furpose. This is not the case in the united States, he sald, because 4f "society cannot convince, it cannot imrose. Ee said that the freedom of the artist is gaining in the USSR, losing over here, although the barriers to trity free art are gradually dropping over here, A second sourse advised on varuary 13, 1964, that ARNOLD JOHNSON was Kational Legislative Director, GPUSA, The first source also stat ed that THOMAS WOOD, JR., 2 member of the Board of Directors of the Americans for the Competitive Enterprise System and a lecturer on the challenge of Communism to democracy, debated with JCENSON and was effective in discrediting JOHNSON to a great extent. The first Source furnished on December 1, 1964, a mimeographed sheet headed “Saturday Opinion Forums, Planned and Sponsored by The American Frienis Service Committee, Inc., and The Friends Pease Gommittee; COMMUNISM: PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE, Saturday, November: 21, 1964," which stated in part as follows: Is coexistence possible with Communism? What are the conflicts between "our way" and "their way"? Can they be reconziled if they exist? PFeacefvlly? Or mst change come first - in ideclogy, in foreign _policy politics, in economic development, or in all of these? . -7- >