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AI RICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE of the question, he said that while it is true that the United States has a higher evandaxrd of living, there are more poor people here m“woefifths of the population of the United States - 77,000,000 people - live in substandard conditions, he said, adding, “These are not my figures.” He ascribed the poverty to Capitalism, stating that under Socialism, with peaceful competition among the workers, the Seviet Union has advanced amazingly since 1917. NEnLs ecurnsry has grown fat om war," he declared, We should’grant peaceful coexistense and let the cour:tries eof the world compete peaceably, he said. To | the question of why there ar.ti-Semitism in he a is he trod Mise TOUNGON wanliteaed treat or tf amit4dam da NE Loot Ry PS. vUTNOUN PEPlLeg tial Elivloemiti sm 268 against the law. He said that the cold sosiety cannot be completely uprooted by a "Pecpie's Revolution, * and that some vestiges cf it still remaic; thus, some Soviet people are still anti-Semitic. He commented parenthetically that those of us who are white have not dcne nearly enough to erase racism in this country. In response to another question, Mr. JOHNSON said that no country today has true Communism. Socialism, yes, he said, but not Commmisam., commmism implies a social attitude and discipline on che part of the people. This must ecme from within the naticn, he said, He added that peaceful coexistence would Lay the groundwork for this attitude, When asked if it was necessary fer the Communist | nations to take over the world in orp3er to acshleve true Communism, Mr. JOHNSON replied that it was not necessary. ' He was asked about the treatment of the Tibetans by the Chinese, and replied that it was not necessarily genocide, as it had been termed, but rather the logical result of the age-long will of tra Tibetan people to be be ee A een ee a part of China. He was asked about the differenre between the Communist Party of the U. S. A. and the Communist Party of the U. 5. 5. R.