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ee ee eee G d§ Asma mre] & VGidew Sldec) we ~PHILADELIHIA -~ The 50- member Friends Peace Commnzittce here has cabled the All-Union Central Committee of Trade Uni- ons ac Ajuscow, invitieg Russian: tourists tw visit: Gus area, meet typical Americans, and see the in- dustries, farms and schools of the Delaware Valles. The cable as- rages stich visitors “hospitality and ay assistance necessary.” 3. The cable was a response to a bioscow anmouncement of Aug. 16) WwUunieys wdivdce LvviSSif7 g Oa LS } ett headed the delewation, “est in good literature, theater and §-11 eee ee mee : ; lien denn eN fu slay fic . #THE LARCE ROMAN C that 2,000 “ordinary Russian tonr-, “We are strongly in favor of LIC CHURCH IN 4I0- ists would go abroad for their vaca-! increased travel between the tve WAS “CROWDED FG? ‘tions this year, some of them to’ countries and we would urge’es- SERVICES,” Pickett learned the U.S, with more to go next; pecially our own country—the U.S.’ gol rates talked to twa veur.” to work toward making this mu- sranne THERE WEDe N¢ ' A delesation of six prominent tt exchance possible.” the state- PORTS OF PERSECUTIO nakers had recently” returned: Ment concluded. . r a rea a month's visit to the Soviet Pickett reported no interference kta sparen wes Union. Based on interviews with With the practice of religious be- Tussi * . eet Pa two of the delesates, the Philudel- liets. He estimated there were reliio wg th Pishe ann phia Daily News ran a series of ive Some 73 million members of — here certain! . texett to articles on their impresyions of; Christian sects in the Soviet Union: oo ent of intense fellows) i that country and its peaple. (50 million adhering to the Russian tivated within the wutty ee The to interviewed were Claire Orthodox faith, 22) million Old yond appear that this wow ence. Pickett, secretary emeritus of Believers, an offshoot of that faith; a substitute for the fellows! the -American Friends Service and some 530,000 Buptists. a church,” Committve and representatives of However, he said.-there were Alderson, according to the the-Friends at the United Nations, , 0 carchin iq DADer's report, found that “é and Wioe Alverson, termed by the about 3 million who worship it Relds the Russians are. far l Newspaper “oue ot tie leading the Buptist churches. The Old Ber ag iy merchandisine an market analysts in the 7S." Pick- lievers, he explained, wou viiution, He franlly act [called “Protestants” in this count tha it was the oppositecum . “We have found the Soviet peo- tv. ; nou ple everywhere to he warm, trend: ly, with a deep and abiding de- Vd Cull et wa US we ,",7~-\ This is,a clipping from sire for peace that finds expression ve J on every occasion,” declared the ce ‘ + “page of the delegation... “Vheir genuine inter- 3 _ ‘ * ‘ () Daily Worker “music is a tribute te the cultural , . ‘ a i . - i) ‘and educational efforts of the gov- & ‘ , ~ : f he Worker -emment that cannot help but im- | ¢ New Leader press the visitor.” The six brouzht back from their} a 7! 8 .- Date SEP 4 1959 visit, according ta tha Daily News et ; tr account, an impression ot “a wide- ' a , Clipped at the Seat of Spread ignorance and ‘misintorma: 'y Government. / -. tion’ about contemporary Amer icant a ie f wet e life and thought,” which they con-; aa ; N Nat! ; sidered “distuebing.” The “harther: 7 sos oe EWE me ; opening of two-way channels, a { . . - letting unbiased intormation tito A \ x ro. both countries, would, “the roma a . . a, ‘ s ’ x believes”. “enable the desires fo :” "s ! v- peace “of both peoples ta be more 19 aBnntlin mar Bee . wb came