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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, WORLD AFFAIRS CAMP, PAINTED POST, ORK, AUGUST 22 - 29, 1964: Weu aha ws Sef hs beh be ‘ "tmedical care ~ and other welfare prograuws ~ it is here that your case is weakest when weighed against the Communistst Secialist States. It would be good for all Communists to come to this country. They would see what it is really like.' _ "When I questioned GELY's statement about Soviet citizens! freedom of travel, MIROSLAV said I was right ~ GELY had not spoken the truth, he said, and told the discussion group to ‘ask our Soviet friend if he did not mean-freedom to travel only within the Warsaw Pact countries.’ I also questioned GELY's picture of political participation by the people, and said I understood that all power was vested in the Central Committee, which, in turn, was ruled with an iron hend by KHRUSHCHEV. He agreed with this and suggested that the group ask tour Soviet friend' this question. "Following a question about pockets of poverty in Czechoslovakia and MIROSLAV's answer, I remarked that I wondered just how happy people were to be shifted about from place to place at the dictates of the State. I asked, 'MIROSLAV, just how happy mene £1. 2--5 Tt Te omt ta a“ are they?! He smiled and said, 'Not very. We have our problems.! "During the discussion of the 'good life’ in the Soviet Union, when IDSA and a Negro boy, who had been to the USSR with one of the Hiler Tours, were extolling the cultural advantages and. the number of television sets the Russians enjoyed, _MEROSLAV whispered to me, 'A siick Communist can “=~ hoodwink children like these - they are very | - naive. . re