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aac oC Director, FBI “ a . 1 : . rf . re nc a “living here io as high as it is (not as hich as ours, but good) and puzzierent as to the protica of fresdow For instance, I notice a book onsale froa which sone. pares had been cut out _ because the writer had fallen out-of favor, and the disappearance re ef other writers from the book stores. She did not try.to deny : any of this, but said that Russians can't understand our treat~ a, . ment of Hegrocs. I asked about labor cams, but ehe hadn't ; ‘ ; heard of any. The averaze American has much more inforsation. about the seamy side of our country than the avera o Russian has of his. Officer of the boat called to me mysteriously and I thought thi: ig itl I went below with hin, and all he wanted was for ms to sin the guest book = if I nad had a . - ; confortable and pleasant trip. After the others had gone, . CO . ¥ arranred to staymother mmth to doresearch into Russian '. iterature, The getting of the visa brought ze to attention of euthoritdes ang I had mech attention end a few lines in ‘ vo - Pravia, which o vorybody reads, made ze a poblic figure. T ; wes asked tb give a Gorky Institute talk on Russian studies in Atcricea end was asxed for an intervicow on inproving US32- US calteral rclatieons. I wrote out the interview in atvance & and asked tow... tho translation that was to be published. ; There was pert of dt cut cut, 'to save room’ he said. The s, deleted part ruu on truth = there is no Russian truth or . ; > Azcrican truth, © ut truth is one <= me eft it in to there mo, end cut the fvectic part! nhere IT said, 'I could rot love Se . thee dear, so much loved T net honor more‘y and we can say . . ‘the: sexe thing to cur country, I could not love thee so much ee ne oe _ loved ‘T_not -honer roreat_I let. it goat that, thinkine the ue game part would have been cut in cy om country. I wrote an an exrticle cn the Geneva conference ani the Literary Gazette a ¢ -peblished it all - right next to some anti-dmerican cartoons, oe, Tho Russians love booxvs and there is a literary black market & : because books are all bousht up as soon as printed. they like 0. foeRY, DRIVER, GOLA, JACK LOMO, Balanc, DICKENS, “ _ DON QUIROTA, KARX THAIN, I was surprieced and ivnressed by . a this love of literatura which 4s not cue to Communists; the - “ , -U9th century took. Literature seriously. Cennorship ies old “{n Russia and there are narrov lizits of work in Hussiay - «pigidity and omissions in literature. fut it is changing * and what it will cad to denerds on the Rucsflans and the -s* - attitude of the rest of the world to Russia. There have been