Mrs. Paine. No; I would not say there was any agreement. People were interested. This is an unusual thing to do. And they were interested in hearing how he found Soviet life, what he thought of it, whether he was pleased or disappointed.
Mr. Jenner. Would you be good enough to tell the members of the Commission what Mr. Oswald said in those respects, to the best of your recollection?
Mrs. Paine. He mentioned that he was displeased with the censorship, or at least he commented on it in a way that I took as unfavorable.
Mr. Jenner. Thank you, Ma'am.
Did he say he was——
Mrs. Paine. What had happened, yes.
Mr. Jenner. What censorship is he talking about?
Mrs. Paine. He referred to a letter that had been sent to him by Robert Oswald that he later learned, after he had come back to the United States, had been sent. He had not received it. He judged that they had simply stopped it, and he commented that they are more apt to just take a letter than take out a piece of it and then send it on, and that censorship is more obvious.
Mr. Jenner. All right, go on.
Mrs. Paine. I wondered, listening to him, whether he really was——