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He came back to New York sometime in the late twenties and was there briefly. Quite by accident I met him at a private party at somebody's house. What he had to say was interesting. People were asking him what the Russians were like. There was a kind of an Iron Curtain then, although this Intourist outfit made it possible for a number of persons to go every year to Russia on a conducted tour. There were people coming back all the time, but they had had a conducted tour and had only seen so much of Russia or as much as the Russian people as their guide permitted them to see. So there was just enough talk about what the Russians were like so that at this dinner party Colonel Cooper was asked questions about what the Russians were really like and what it was like to work with them.

He had a good deal to say about what good workmen they were, how easy they were to deal with, that they were happy, pleasant people - at least, the workmen and groups that he dealt with were. He had, of course, terrific interest in this dam and in its possibilities. He felt that it had been a very wise decision on the part of their political leaders to spend their money, time and energies on this because it would be the solution of a good many of their economic problems of the future.

That was all I knew of Hugh Cooper. Sometime in the