Mr. Clark. Yes; the reason I remember that is I had read an article recently about all of the resort buildings and had seen some pictures in Life or Time magazine on the Black Sea, this resort area, and asked him if he had been down there as I heard it was similar to the Riviera in France. He said no, he wanted to go there. I said, "Why didn't you go there during your vacation if you had a month?" He said he couldn't afford it. It would take nearly a year's salary for him to pay for the transportation. I said, "Isn't housing and food provided?" He said, "Oh, yes; if I could have gotten there I could have a free house but only people high up or special favors are given permission to go down there." He was quite unhappy about it.
Mr. Liebeler. He mentioned to you that his apartment had a private bath while most of the other apartments had to share the bath?
Mr. Clark. Yes; I was asking him what the apartments were like. He said most of the apartment houses would have, for example, on one floor have two wings; on the right wing would be a group of six apartments, would be just one big room leading off the hall and at the end of the hall would be the bath and kitchen and these six apartments would share that one bath and one kitchen. And the other side of the wing would be a duplication and he said the only difference between his and those apartments was his had a wash basin and private stove in there, small apartment stove so he could cook if he wanted to and he did not have to use the communal kitchen.
Mr. Liebeler. Now, you said that Marina did not go back to work after the baby was born?
Mr. Clark. That's what he indicated to me.
Mr. Liebeler. Did he indicate that that was an extraordinary situation?
Mr. Clark. Yes; he said it was very unusual because all women were allowed so much leave; I think he said 6 weeks before the birth of a child and 4 weeks or something after the birth of the child in which they were not required to work but other than that they worked the whole time.
Mr. Liebeler. What happened to the child when they went back to work?
Mr. Clark. He said they take it to special places that elderly women—they receive their pay for taking care of the children; kind of a babysitting service or nursery and you would drop the children off at the nursery and at the end of the day, the mothers pick them up.
Mr. Liebeler. Did he express any opinion as to this procedure? Did he think this was a good thing or bad thing?