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AMERICAN FRIEIDS §S Socialist countries, but of the Capitalist countries as well. : According to Mr, JOHNSON, this country mist remain ‘at peace and advocate a policy cf feace. We must engage in peaceful competition with the Socialist countries, IV. Questions and Answers Me, JOHNSON was asked about the position of the Communist Party toward religion. His qeeeed was that the Party | felt that a man's religion "was his own business." He then went on te say that Communists have as high a view, if not higher, than anyone else. He quoted the remark, for which he Save no source, that Ne ee Ne § Wha Communists are stronger Christicns than Christians." Ee was asked how he recerclled kis Bacheloz of Divinity Degree from Union Theological Seminary with his Btatement that he was a materialistic atheist. He Baid that after he took the Degree, he went into unemploy- ment relief work during the depression and was forced to re-examine those views. He was asked how it was possible to peacefully coexist with a nation, one of whose leaders had said, "We will bury you," and with China, the most aggressive nation in the world today. He stated in reply that the expression on Mr. KERVSHCHEV'!s part was of the same order as the baseball fan's "Kill the ump!" As to China, he said that she has an entirely different concept of peaceful coexistense, The question was asked, “Mary Fealy...has said that one of the aims of Commmism is to see that the worker receives most of the profit. How can you reconcile this with the Soviet Union, whose standard of living is 80 mich lower than our owi?" Acccrding to Mr. JOHNSON, Miss HEALY's statement is an unusual way of stating the basic Communist concept of the cwnership of the means of production and distribution. As to the second part =5= ee OO le gf nnn