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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, - WORLD AFFAIRS CAMP, PAINTED POST, . NEW XORK, AUGUST 22 = 1964: ' _c. °“ELEANO PATTERSON - ~- 1963 Radcliffe greduate. 7 Assistant in the friends! Middle Atlantic high school yo? program. Presently on leave to work with the ig Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Washington, Could not believe ACDA was not an agency of 'peace at any price.! nqETy/SERTISKT - -- At the camp I was told he was Second Secretery of the Soviet Bubassy. He may have received ). a promotion since the May 1964 Diplomatic List carries y- ’ him as Third Secretary. He toid me he was an economist. The Russian made these points: Stressed free medical care in USSR - more doctors per capita than any other nation in the world; no unemployment - not ever: no taxation; open elections for participation 4n local, as well as national, affairs. Russians fewer in number than other nationalities, but ali. members of the Republics participate equally. . - Workers! vacation resort - all free, Soviet economy; -. _.. While not up to U,3S., is rapidly overtaking it. cor Already far surpasses United States in steel produc- tion. Soviet Union still Socialist State. Went too -fast following 1917 Revolution. Learned from that | nae - mistake. Now have goal of 1980 as attainment of goal of completely Communist State. Painted picture of ~~vv=—-"—" what that would mean - all wants and needs of the people would be fully supplied by the State; there we would be no need for money. Everyone now works, Vii... not selfishly for himself, but for the State, for the common good of all, so that all can partake of oot 2 the good life. All citizens are free to.travel wear >” aryywhere they may wish to gO. No racial discrimina-~ _ _ tion. oe He told me he was very sorry not to have héard my presentation. I said I was sure MIROSLAV had told him 7 - gll about 1t. He said in a very surprised tone, ce , a ane or te ° or Sceadieeaiaiaiatcans adenine menage et ee ee ee eee te eee ee ee eee ee, ee eee ee ee ee eee ee ee ee Te ee mre