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= AIERTCA FRIE"DS S: SE _COMEIITEE His reply was that there hes teen on international tie since the Gissolution of the Third International, but that the CPUSA would like to see such ties rein- stated, There has been a great deal of debate on this matter and still is, he said. When asked about the limitations placed upon artists in the Soviet Union, he replied thst the freedom of the artist 1s relative. The extist 1s a Soctalist country has a certain social responsibility; his talent must be used for a social furpose. This is not the case in the United States, he sald, because if "society cannot convince, it cammot imrose.” He said that the freedom of the artist is gaining in the USSR, losing over here, although the barriers to truly free art are gradually dropping over here, A second sourse advised on Jexuary 13, 1964, that ARNOLD JOHNSON was National Legislative Director, CPUSA, The first source also stated that THOMAS WOOD, JR., a member of the Board of Directors of the Americans for the Competitive Enterprise System and a lecturer on the challenge of Communism to democracy, debated with JCENSON and was effective in discrediting JOHNSON to a great extent. The first Source furnisted on December 1, 1964, a mimeographed sheet headed “Saturday Opinion Forums, Planned and Sponsored by The American Frienis Service Committee, Inc., and The Friends Peave Committees COMMUNISM: PRINCIPIE AND PRACTICE, Saturday, November. 21, 1964," which stated in part as follows: Is coexistence possible with Commmism? What are the conflicts between "our way" and "their way"? Can they be reconciled if they exist? Peacefully? Or must change come first - in ideclogy, in fcreign policy politics, in economic development, or in all of these? . -T-