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...Frye's skill in Russian was not matched by other Americans in the Soviet Union, however. Indeed, as the scholar learned when he was in Moscow, most of the American correspondents there do not know the language at all. "I did some translation for Welles Hangen of the New York Times, Frye reports...
...Frye too was impressed by the friendliness of the Russian people, and his experience was even more favorable than Berman's. Of course, as an American in Central Asia be was much rarer an item than was Berman in Moscow...
...rate, Frye feels that "the Russians were more friendly toward us than Americans would be toward them." Their most characteristic attitude was one of curiosity, he says, adding "they have none of the anti American prejudices so often found among the British and French...
...Frye emphasized that he was speaking of the people and not the government, and added that he thought the people had grown largely immune to official propaganda over the course of years. But American propaganda in the form of the Voice of America, he continued, has no effect on the peoples of Central Asia because there are very few radios and those that exist receive only station...
Though neither he nor Frye had difficulty in traveling, Berman had a long wast to get his visa is the first plate. He first made an application in 1947, and had intermistenly renewed it afterwards. In February, 1954, he applied for a visa for the coming summer, best was once more unsuccessful. When he read last winter, however, that Nikita A. Khruschev, First Secretary of the Russian Communist Party, had told newspapermen he was surprised to hear that Americans were having difficulty in obtaining visas and would try to remedy that situation, Berman immediately cabled Khruschev, explaining the details...