European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse W. T to in. F the stars and stripes Page 3 a m a wow a hoax & 3lream loss paradise9 ended. A to imm a adventure m r ave Johnson of to it a mar Myrthe socialist Paradise Jaje perpetrated by a cynical. Of tetons f you Fimble simple throughout the world. Be and. V found out the Jerly this year lured by a the Init cd states sold. Tiling hoped h a o v 1 e t i above we fio Ped his hear Tat russian doctor praised propaganda As Thein their a did t just pick tip Al said this was an unfortunate situation but would be corrected under the current seven year plan and the coming 20-year plan a he chs scheduled to take effect in 1980. A replied thav the housing construction completed at this time was very Nice but was seven Only to the Art Tets and to the communist i try members. 3 at this Point Van our Conversa Tion a Large Roth dressed in a Mili tary tunic found later had been discharged from the army for drunkenness and Gener ally bad behaviour asked my wife to dance with him. The physical education Man Constantine served As interpreter ? Witch she refused by saying Liat she its _ and did Nuj know this form of Sauying anyway he a seemed Satis fied and went Back to his table. / Constantine then told us to pay to mind to this Man that he was that All mongols Kre Drinker and Row Oxe in Gen a time Pennsylvania of out of school and had jut my native Manchester a to work to Pohly. Having been tinder the asst Imp Mph irony Sti Idy of co at a racial prejudice had been eliminate in the soviet to non i questioned Constantia further i Hei retorted that mongols i hot to be trusted and reiterated that they were notorious drunkards this ref confirmed by Eugene the construction we got up to leave we sow the mongol drunker now fighting with one of the waiters who was trying to get him to leave. There was a lot of pushing and shoving. The next Day we went sight seeing in Leningrad. I had previously been told that this is a very Beautiful City but the rubble and the filth there is almost indescribable. The communist officials win Tel you that these conditions prevail due to the terrific struggle against the fascists in the great patriotic War this term the great patriotic War is an expression used by Al the so Vleet people we met. If you had brought me to Lenin Grad in 1945 1 would have be he Edthe comm artist spokesmen. But this is 1962 i years i have said there is a big Gap Between communism in theory and the actual practice. The Best example i Ean name was our terrible disillusion regard ing soviet i mentioned above we were hopeful that russian medical men the Best in the world could do something for our Little boy. When i made a few discreet inquiries be fore our departure from the . I was told i could easily see their most eminent specialist once i was in Russia. Our arrival an in tourist Man made arrangements for us Tosee the specialist it was stipulated that later in Moscow there would be a staff of doctors to look at Lundsey a woman heart specialist met us following an appointment. In Stead of a Hospital or a clinic the appraisal was made in a hotel. In a suite of swed very efficient but she told us nothing that we Hadnot already Learned from Ameci-1 con specialists. Dumbfounded after having been Given the impression from soviet literature that the russian medical plan was far in Advance of that it helped people in that it was More readily available. I was dumb found that someone in need of medical attention would discover that the facilities Are there but the patient would almost drop dead before All the red tape. Signing of forms and All ,. Was waded Learned from a British woman and others in our tour group that the hospitals Are obviously dirty and the facilities entirely inadequate. In other words what you expect to find in Hospital was entirely lacking m soviet Hospi floors Are not clean this ,. Arty cof lion redone Day. Ana a the immature read and deeper into the ii object. ,. Very age to Fla j.,. Vi-i.----. -,--,-.,s we Nide go leis no to Ipri Taie Hus " slate. Soviet of a dered with the s ale by our we bought of f tickets to la Teflon and then passage i it rant of or Baitie ports wad Lenin a on foot we want through the port a Fojt bund Long 1 stopped the Pattii Ted eed directions. He suggested in i told Wihlm we were Amer. Chem Montet he was delighted planning that fhe was a his name a Oleg. Took the i us into the City. A nov cropped Ian i heart of to pwn we did t quite where to Tutu three Young ians it turned out that of them poke English ,. Esd out Tower taint a about where go and asked ii. They could be hosts Gagauf paved Johnson who planned take up re Denoe la the soviet Union t meets the press at is Manchester n.h., Home with his wife and twin sons Nana photo Sieve Gwyon swaps Jet for subway "a. New Ork up comic strip airman has taken a temporary assignment with the new York transit authority. Hell be Riding the subways instead of the jets and his Mission will be a Clen up operation artist Milton Caniff volunteered the service oif col Steve Canyon tothe transit authority to help with tools a The hotel1 mos. Siow Slit a the second floor. The 3fttiswaiit cancelled an Neol men he was advanced the was Iziver a physical who was in his was 70-�iear m Tinl Romh san Francisco a r educators always Are. Telling h i a school dropout that a Alpo la could mean � better Fot to year old James a code 3t, a diploma from Lowell High school did have sentimental value. Codes it ire a., Soldier had t earned his because he left school after a for Yeam Back in 1911. So he took Jse Yea tests of shocked the roof off in grades conv Niente school Locial tid quietly won Fly Diplotti la Sivi Reet actually his test scores we rent a big Surprise. Code had done pretty Well in the army became a rns Jor general and was chief signal officer for the european theater of operations during world War ii. He accumulated a few other diplomas too master of science Yale 1921 master of electrical engineering Yale 1933 Bachelor of science is. Military Academy to continuing clean up Campaign Jet Pilot Canyon will make his appearance in some 6,500 subway cars on. A seven foot Long cartoon strip poster. In the strip s first Frame the visiting airman win sur vey a spa kingly clean car bran new and empty. It s Nice to be Back in new York " hell say. But Canyon will be disappointed at the habits of some of the Pas sengers who enter the car in the next Frame. T by throw thes papers and other utter. On the floor and leave it looking very nearly like a bombed out Airfield. In the last Frame Canyon alone in the subway car again will Muse maybe this la the any they like it. That last degree is Why code Lowell West Point though he was so promising it appointed him after 3h years of High school. Caniff offered Canyon to the transit authorities t h r o u g h the newspaper comics Council inc other cartoonists Are expected to provide similar assistance to the Campaign woman and others told me an conditions Are generally unsanitary and Here is the Point this was a Hospital open to the Public they knew that some members of the tour were coming to visit and yet they did not attempt to clean up the place. As a result we did t even try to bother to see the specialists in Moscow. But Bice we arrived in the so Viet capital we were so disgusted with the misery and squalor the crass contrasts Between communist Bosses and their Sut 5cts, and the blatant lies we had been led to believe that we decided to give up our plan of staying on in rus Sia instead to return to the United tales and Moke our firsthand discoveries available to other whammy have been deluded stitch a were. Our big problem now was this we to i already told soviet authorities we wanted to stay on. How were we going to get out of this predicament one afternoon a were informed that we would be contacted by soviet authorities re Garding our political any Luton at . That night. But we decided to avoid the rendezvous and to claim misunderstanding w a were challenged. Secret police shadows instead we headed Back to Len Ingrad with the British tourist party. For the remainder of our stay in Turesia we were under Sut Vei Tiance of the secret police in conspicuous strangers dogged my wife and a on our every they made to overt move. However Joan and i became More and More jittery. This la Why on Ewe wet % Bacic on Board i decided to Contact Oleg the port official whom i had first contacted re Garding our acceptance to find out which Way the wind was wowing. Oleg could not understood Why our political Asylum had not been arranged by this time. He said he would make a phone Call in an Effort to help us. Of course by now this was fat last thing we wanted. But we could t reveal our hand. Keep out while he made is Call i went Over to a sidewalk cafe. When i got Back Oleg told me thai the communist official he had phoned had told him that the matter four political Asylum was not Oreg a affair and to veep out of it. Oleg made a second cart however to another bed official Ord this one advised him that my wife and and the children coutd1 take one o three coi ses let the boat leave without us go to the Captain of the vessel "1 make known our desire or political Asylum or take the some boat to London and to the soviet embassy where we unquestionably would be accepted. The latter course naturally seemed the More acceptable to us we salted that night Reeung the men Douay relieved that it were having soviet soil. Instead of contacting the rus sians we made a beeline for our own embassy As soon As we arrived in England after some resulting from the fact that we did not Havethe funds to Purchase tickets for the return trip to the United tales solved through the Watt cooperation o the . State department and my father in Law we arrived borne again three weeks utter we left Lor Good itis needless to say that i was cured not Only of my wish to live i Russia but also of my infatuation with communists everywhere but especially those who Tutt per Sist it their belief s in this country should go through the som experience. Then their eyes would be opened and their loyalty to the nation could be restored
