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...Frye had no trouble getting his visa this summer, and was generally given no trouble at all in coming and going. He gratefully reports that no inspection was made of his baggage as leaving the country, and that his was allowed to take out undeveloped film, in addition to books, manuscripts, and even microfilms. But on one occasion Frye had a brief run in with the MVD. While eating with some Indian travelers he had met, he was discovered by a trio of MVD agents. At first they were unable to believe that he was an American, and apparently traveling...
...speak very good English," Frye told him, happy to have his lone encounter with the police come to so simple...
...Berman both speak with interest on the question of religion in the Soviet Union, but their conclusions are somewhat different. Frye, who attended a Moslem burial in Central Asia and visited various houses of worship, noted great interest in religion, but says that generally it was confined to the older people. He believes that religion is dying out as a result of the anti-religious propaganda taught in the schools...
...Frye and Berman both found the Russians interested in further educational exchanges with the United States. Berman noted, however, that the desire for exchanges of books and scholars was discernible primarily on the intermediate level, and he has no way of knowing what top-level policy would...
...Frye, meanwhile, took a step to help push Soviet policy in the right direction. While in Moscow, he invited the Soviet Academy of Sciences to send a lecturer to the United States. This lecturer, who was invited on behalf of the Medieval Academy of America, would speak on the Middle Asian States...