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As Kozlov followed his tight schedule to San Francisco, and aimed beyond that for Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh before swinging back to New York next week, the U.S. had gathered some facts and impressions about him. Not all the facts, for in his case, as in the case of all of the new generation of Soviet power men, the facts of his early and his formative years are fragmentary. He is a hearty, hard-driving man, a nimble and sometimes even engaging politician. Since he is at the top of the Communist heap, he is obviously a ruthless conniver; and since he got to the top so fast, he apparently has not dared to cross his boss.
His U.S. visit will do him a lot more good than it does the U.S. A largely unknown Soviet bureaucrat until his arrival, he is now a recognizable world figure. The U.S. can only hope that after his travels, he will relay more of what he has learned to Khrushchev (about whose misconceptions Harriman complained) than did Mikoyan; and that he will take back to the isolationists in the Kremlin a clear and straightforward account of the strength, unity and power of the U.S. people and of their conviction in their ideals.
* For his frank and truthful report Frankel was derided by Izvestia, which hinted that his visa might not be renewed. * Called upon to help Russia's famine-stricken millions in 1921, American Relief Administrator Herbert Hoover ran into an astonishing sample of Soviet recalcitrance from the Red government itself. In his memoirs he writes that "the Soviet government had been subsidizing revolution over the world with Czarist gold." Hoover demanded that the Communists spend part of their gold for food, threatened to abandon the project when he was refused. At length, the Russians contributed $18 million in gold. From U.S. sources, Government and private, Hoover and his organization rounded up an additional $60 million and with it bought enough to feed 18 million Russians. Later, famed Soviet Writer Maxim Gorky sent an impassioned letter of gratitude to Hoover, and in 1923 Lev Kamenev, President of the Council of People's Commissars, sent him a scroll "in the name of the millions of people who have been saved," assured him solemnly that the U.S.S.R. "never will forget the aid rendered to them by the American people . . . holding it to be a pledge of the future friendship of the two nations."