EUROPEAN TRAVELER CHERISHES SOUVENIRS OF SEMINARS ABROAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100120010-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 26, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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AUG 2 6 1964
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WED., AUG. 26,.1964'
European: Traveler
Cherishes :Souvenirs
R..Or Seminars Abroad;
BY WILMA HIGGINBOTHAMGM
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velin m other countries is a wonderful way to see all of
the good points of democracy and free enterprise, according to
f, Miss" Ruth Anderson of Upper Ridgeway Road, just back from
a' University of North Carolina Seminars Abroad tour.
"It's also a good way to
,.:., whet your appetite for more
r trips and further study in
Europe," added the persona.
' ble youngest daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. Randolph L. Ander.
son of Upper Ridgeway Road.
"It was the greatest tour
possible, inexpensive and most
comprehensive," Miss Ander-
son continued.
"Before going, we had a se-
f?"?ries of meetings in Chapel
4 Hill; spent ..a' week visiting
,.%embassies in Washington and.
r - talking ` with ' -officials about
countries We were to visit.
practically all cities we
;,,.were met by officials and stu-
dents. There.,were lectures for
? us but we had as much free
time as we wanted."
tics can't be done away. with . Mountain-; attending a frater-
and people live just as people. nity party with German sta-
American now working' with i
the Economic Council u. 4,-,
Prague. He is now a Marxist.?;
meeting it got so emotional;'
and the American students gol,
so angry. He spoke out
strongly against the Ameri?-~;
cans and the CI: ahnosr
turned into a patriotic demon
stration.
"You can't imagine what
the Berlin wall is like until
you see the barred windows.
and the crosses at the bottom
of the wall in memory of peo-
ple killed trying to escape.'
"In East Germany, you see
the beautiful fields then all at
once there are the barbed wire
fences, the guards, the mine
Ruth continued, "Our main ? fields. It is just atrocious!
..experience was at a Commu- "Even West Berlin is de-
nisbwork camp for high school pressing. It ,is very beautiful
;.students in Yugoslavia. We and modern but the people
sang and danced, with them have an artificial gaiety about
around the hammer and sic- life. Perhaps being so close to
'..kle. We were just young peo- the wall, they feel they can
ple together enjoying each never tell when their lives will
ficials and had wonderful one can bargain . with the
lectures. But there was no sales people;" sharing a hunt-
freedom. You could feel the ers' meal in Amsterdam with
lack of it in the air and see it a young Dutch girl and a hon-
in the faces of the people. - , eymooning.American couple.
~ . "One lecturer was a,former '.. ,In ;London, Ruth t u r n e d
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!2_1VOR.ITE SOUVENIR-Print of laughing clown:
bough,. in West Berlin is Ruth Anderson's favorite,
rernir.dee of r' summer abroad. A senior this fall at'
j the Gtai.versit'j of North Carolina, Ruth thinks stu-'
dent lJcxtr., are best for travel. (Daily Mail photo by;
Ra,V Wheeler)'.
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