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. e ‘ . . : ? ' . § rae o Director, FBI . Living here io es high as it is (not | as hich as as | ours, but good) . and puzziczent as to the protlea of freadou, For instance, I > notices a book on ‘sale fro which sone pages hed been cut out - because the writer hac fallen out of.favor, and the dinappearance Jf - of other writers from the boos storcs. She did not try.to deny : any of this, but said that Russians can't understand our treat-~ $ . .. ment of Hcgrocs. I asked about labor exams, but ehe hadn't . ‘ . heard of any. The averaze American has much more inforsation . about the seamy side of our country then the avera o Russian has of his. Officer of the boat called to me mysteriously and I thovsht thi: is it) I went below with hin, and all he wanted was for ms to sicn the guest book = if I nad had a confortatle and pleasant trip. After the others had gone, . I arranzed to staymothor month to doresearch into Russian , Uterature, The petting of the visa brought me to attention of cuthoritdes end I had anch attention end a few lines in : . Yravga, which everybody reads, xade me a public figure. T was asked td give a Gorkj Institute talk on Russian studies in Arcrica end wos asked for an interview on inproving Us US caltural-rclations, Iwrote out the interview in atvance u end asked toa: tho translatign that was to be published. There was part of it cut cat, 'to save ro: he said, The as, Goleted part ree on truth - there is no Russian truth or . > Accrican truth, tet truth is one - he left it in to there ey end cut the tpoetic part! where I said, 'I could not love . thee dear, so much loved T net honor more‘y and we can say . . ‘the raze thing to cur country, IJ could not love theo so much woe ° Joved T_vot boner nores!_T let_it goat that, thinkine the ee same part would have been cut in cy om country. I wrote an : . erticle on the Geneva conference ani the Literary Gazette dit all - richt next to sone anti-American cartoons, Looe Tho Russians leve books and there is a literary black rarket & ° because books are all bou7ht up as soon as printed. ; : Like 0. fONRY, DRTVIR, SOLA, JACK LOMGY, Balane, LICHENS, « . DON QUIZOTA, MARX THAIN, I was surpriced and ivpressed by . this love of litcrature “which 4s not cue to Communists; the ve : -U9th century took Literatura seriously. Censorship is old “{n Russia and there are narrov lixits of work in Russiay ‘rigidity end omissions in literature. But it is changing ” and what it will Icad to denerds on the Rucsdans and the * - attitude of the rest of the rorld to Russia. There have been