Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
American Friends Service Committee — Part 30
Page 81
81 / 122
Director, FBI _ . - . : ‘
s . and
"Evening meeting —(uR0n. ALDERSON-was 421- - -- <>
Qe . .
Care
and not present.)
"EDOAR READS presiding. Shoaed an AFSC sound-color movie
‘*With the Quakers in Koreat, Introduced: - - ‘
“TMRITDIAt FDGRTI: (professor of Russian at Penn State) — *
‘old story o: Stestant butler who believed all Catholics
had a horn in niddle of forehead which disappeared when -
looked for, Sano with uss we think all Coxcunists have @
horn in forchead. There is en impression in 2ussia that ell
‘Acericans have a horn, All over Russia peovle said thet
Russia wanted peace, but tho U. S. did not. Ke c2aid Anerd-
Gans wanted poace, end they ssid, 'Oh, it sust bo just the
Ausrican capitalists who don't want peace.' tie said, wold
no, because most of us arc capitalists. If you visit Russia -
as the guest of sone organization, you get one picture, but ;
we wanted to gc on our own this trip. A year ago in Yugo-
Blavia, es 2 gucat of Kational Peace Com., I cot a-rense
of unreality. in this trip, I got 2 sense of frustration
by beins in a bureaucyctic country. We were in a little”
tozn end winted to fo to a village 25 miles away, ‘The official ©
whose peraission we had to have Was eway, and tent on being
@way wmtil we pave it up as taking too lorz. Just a mtter
of red tape ~ not intentional at all. Gur route beran et
Leningrad. le divided into two groupa = STEVE CARTY and
ECOR2Z went to Central Asia, and wo four to Penza (7) to
Stalinarad ar’ the Volza and the Don Canal end en artificial
leke 25 by LS miles, creating hydroelectric power, we vee
“sgpsnt ‘tro | days in a boat fo Rostov on the fon end to Kiev
and Loscow. We went on a holiday boat trip with Russian
Baptists, the boat packed with Russiens. There were four
lasses. The first and second shared the top deck, and the
other tro, the loner ceck, ie didn't get to the lower deck =
- too busy talking and answering questions on the top deck.
The upper deck was for peasants who are now eoing other
kinds of work. The lower deck ¥as for poasants who ara
fara workers. In talking to the Russians there was nothing
Z consciously avoided discussinge Wey on both sides,
@pproached all subjects*in tho spirit of petting at the
truth, A worn journalist asked mo with what izpression I
was going homs and I said with surprise that the etendard of
Community corrections
No user corrections yet.
Comments
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Continue Exploring
Agency Collection
Explore This Archive Cluster
Broad Topic Hub
Topic Hub
federal bureau
Related subtopics
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic