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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE Socialist countries, but of the Capitalist countries as well, : According to Mr, JOHNSON, this country mist remain at peace and advocate a policy cf peace. We must engage in peaceful competition with the Socialist countries, IV. Questions and Answers Mr, JOHNSON was asked about the position of the Communist Party toward religion. His reply was that the Party felt that a man's religion "was his own business." He then went on te say that Communists have as high a view, if not higher, than anyone else. He quoted the remark, for which he gave ro source, that Communists are stronger Christicns than Christians." He was asked how he recerciled his Bachelox of Divinity Degree from Union Theological Seminary with his Statement that he was a materialistic atheist. He said that after he took the Degree, he went into unemploy- ment relief work during the depression and was forced to re-examine those views. He was asked how it was possible to peacefully coexist with a nation, one of whose leaders had said, "We will bury you," and with China, the most aggressive nation in the world today. He stated in reply that the expression on Mr. KERTSHCHEV's part was , of the same order as the baseball fan's "Kill the ump!" As to China, he said that she has an entirely different concept of peaceful coexistence. The question was asked, “Mary Fealy...nas seid that one of the aims of Commmism is to see that the worker receives most of the profit. How can you reconcile this with the Soviet Union, whose standard of living is 60 much lower than our owi?™ According to Mr. JOHNSON, Miss HEALY's statement 1s an unusual way of stating the basic Communist concept of the cwnership of the means of production and distribution. As to the second part -5- _—eE