Quite Outside Our Imagination: Alan Gregg Diary Entries During His Trip to the Soviet Union, December 1927

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MONDAY DECEMBER 5~(TH)—MOSCOWArrived in Moscow at 9:30. Much unfinished building in suburbs as we came in. Hotel Savoy filled, and so went to an all-Russian hotel where no other language was spoken. Prices expensive, and very few comforts. Went to Narkomzdrav and saw Cheftel, who was very kind. He is the chief of the Bureau of Foreign Relations in Medicine for the Narkomzdrav.... Semashko busy with the party meetings of this week, but will be able to see AG sometime during the week.... Cheftel said that the visit was principally important for general impressions and contacts, and that no requests [to the Rockefeller Foundation] were likely to be made. He preferred me to go my own pace, but was keen to help as much as possible before he left for America. I said that I had heard that it was not wise to ask to see anyone in Russia, but merely to note what one was shown. He said that on the contrary he wished me to feel free to go anywhere and ask any questions I wished…