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a IOLN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE of the question, he said that while it 1s true that the United States has a higher evtandard of living, there are more poor people here, ‘“wo-fifths of the population of the United States - 77,090,000 people - live in substandard conditions, he said, adding, “These are not my figures.” Ke ascribed the poverty to Capitalism, stating that under Socialism, with peaceful competition among the workers, the Soviet Union has advanced amazingly since 1917. "This country has grown fat on war," he declared. We should’gvant peaceful coexistence and let the countries of the world compete peaceably, he said. To the question of why there is ar.ti-Semitism in the USSR, Mr. JOHNSON replied that anti-Semitism is against the law. He said that t eli soziety cannot be completely uprooted by a "Pecple's Revolution,” and that some vestiges cf it still remaic; thus, some Soviet people are still anti-Semitic. He commented parenthetically that those of us who are white have not done nearly enough to erase racism in this country. In response to another question, Mr. JOHNSON said that no country today has true Communism. Socialism, yes, he said, but not Commmism, Uommanism implies a social attitude and discipline on the part of the people. This must ccme from within the nation, he said, He added that peaceful coexistence would lay the groundwork for this attitude, When asked if it was necessary fer the Communist nations to take over the world in or3er to achieve true Communism, Mr. JOHNSON replied that it was not necessary. He was asked about the treatment of the Tibetans by the Chinese, and replied that it was not necessarily genocide, as it had been termed, but rather the logical result of the age-long will of the Tibetan people to be a part of China. . He was asked about the differenze between the Communist Party of the U. S. A. and the Communist Party of the U. S. S. Re -6-