Soviet newspapers are bitter about the insincerity of American visitors to their country. While in the USSR, they say, Americans are lavish with their praise, but on returning home, they speak quite differently of Russia to their fellow Americans. Our newspapers in turn maintain that Soviet delegations to this country wear a mask of friendliness but once back in Russia present a hostile and unrecognizable picture of the United States. Do visiting Soviet delegations present a true picture of their travels here to their own people? The editors of _The NR_ have been given an opportunity to test this question. A delegation of leading Soviet writers visited the United States in October, 1955, under the chairmanship of Boris Kampov-Polevoy, a Soviet novelist and Secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers. Mr. Polevoy and four members of his delegation spent one evening at the house of the _NR_ editor-at-large. In the third of his articles on his journeys through the US published in the March issue of the Soviet monthly, _Oktyabr_, Mr. Polevoy describes the occasion as he remembers it. A translation of his article, and our comments follow. In the evening we were invited to be the guests of Mr. Michael Straight, editor of the magazine _The New Republic_, at his out-of-town villa bearing the poetic name of "Green Spring Farm." This tiny villa was in no way different from the small suburban houses of well-to-do members of the "intelligentsia" which we already had the opportunity of visiting. Alone the huge agglomeration of books on long shelves--quite unusual for an American home--and the beautiful pictures on the walls revealed that the owners of this house had a passion for literature and an artistic taste which could enable them to discriminate between works of genuine art and the militant flatness, which under the mask of innovationism has impertinently seized the key positions in American art. There were canvasses and drawings which not only prompted one to wonder on passing by, but which induced a desire to stop, to admire and to think. The people who had gathered at the house were interesting too--journalists who had traveled a great deal, who had witnessed many events, who were able to think. A unionist leader was also present--an observing, aggressive, skeptical man.