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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, WORLD AFFAIRS CAMP, PAINTED POST, NEW YORK, AUGUST 22 - 29, 1964: "tmedical care ~ and other welfare prograuws ~ it is here that your case is weakest when weighed against the Communists! Socialist States. It would be good for all Communists to come to this country. They would see what it is really like.' . "When I questioned GELY's statement about Soviet eitizens! freedom of travel, MIROSLAV said I was right ~ GELY had not spoken the truth, he said, and told the discussion group to task our Soviet friend if he did not mean-freedom to travel only within the Warsaw Pact countries.' I also questioned GELY's picture of political participation by the people, and said I understood that all power was vested in the Central Committee, which, in turn, was ruled with an iron hand by KHRUSHCHEV. He agreed with this and suggested that the group ask ‘our Soviet friendt this question. "Following a question about pockets of poverty in Czechoslovakia and MIROSLAV's answer, I remarked that I wondered just how happy people were to be shifted about from place to place at the dictates of the State. I asked, '*MIROSLAV, ‘just how happy are they?! He smiled and said, 'Not very. We have our problems.! cee . Boothe » "During the discussion of the 'good 1ife' in the Soviet Union, when IISA and a Negro boy, who had been to tthe USSR with one of the Hiler Tours, were extolling the cultural advantages and. the number of television sets the Russians enjoyed, - MZROSLAV whispered to me, 'A siick Communist can ~ hoodwinke children like these - they are very - naive. : “¢