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ee ak men A en am le fle le pe ete sl see lea Tel sae i ‘ a 7 = 0-39 (Rev. 5-27-63} Tolson Belmont Stéinbeck «in Moscow — Impressed iby ‘Progress: = sy MOSCOW - _ America’s youth | is .much concerned ; with. the question of war or peace, said John Steinbeck, in a telk with Surat jour naligts. The ‘author of “Grapes -ot ‘ Wrath” is. making his first visit to the USSR since the middle 1940's.- He is -much impressed with the changes he is seeing. Steinbeck’s novels are - popu- lar here. I find them in all the libraries of the factories, farms and ships that I visit. . He was earcerly questioned by*two writers for the Kom- somolskaya - Pravda, “the --youth - newspaper, as he was about to begjn @ travel tour. > ¢ Steinbeck was asked whether the :present young - American - G I began to write sbme decades «ago. I was much influenced by ~ the severe economic depression ¥4m America at that time. I think . “that the youth now is more con Yeerned with this Assue of war ° “mpeace.” “ He did not that they see the way clearly . _at this time, and he “thought -the most pronounced feature of American -youths is the “con- .. :eern” ‘-and “uneasiness” . they ‘have been “feeling through the “post-war years. _-*] think the main cause,” he continued. “is the absence of -@ ‘concrete goal. -Abseace of a target 40 which they can’ dedii- Mohr Casper Callahan ing " expressed by many young "writers in America foday. . Steinbeck wants; his feliow “American writers to be “for” not merely “against” ‘something. He noted at one point that some ~.#young American writers give too ‘think - however ‘much attention “to ~ denouncing everything in the ‘past. . > “The correspondents wanted to know what Soviet writers were plied that Sholokhov, Ehrenburg #lied that Shokolov, Ehrenbourg and Simonov were best known ‘Unfortunately most other ‘o- _ewiet writers bave not yet been ~ published in “America, he said. ~iHe bas been working on a slew vel since summer. will ‘be Yong novel that will take any anther two years. And it will déal ee le A eee pg writers reminded bim of bis own | "seeking something different from | ‘with ‘the ymorals ‘of - American first steps in literature. ‘their - "present environment, he society, he ‘stated. ¢ “Re Woeekek’ Jul _ Qeresce 27,/765 : ee 26? , a4 The Wohinates _ and The Washington Dally News —__ The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American —.._. New York Mirror N York Daily News 7a \w ‘hey . Taw York Post yt e New York TH on od gi Org The Wotker “(fd Wee 6 »> oe a The New Leader - —_ s & — The Wall Street Journal Sis t The National Observer . Tv i * ee ao People's World ‘ oa aa 4 Date é a 5 ‘NOT RECORDED ; 141 NOV § 1963 an