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...Some others: Alexander Barmine (former Soviet chargé d'affaires in Athens, now a U.S. citizen); Victor Kravchenko (former member of the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington); Fedor F. Raskolnikov (former Soviet minister to Bulgaria, died in suspicious circumstances on the French Riviera); Walter G. Krivitsky (former chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Western Europe, died in suspicious circumstances in Washington); Ignace Reiss (former assistant chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Central Europe, murdered in Switzerland...
...Where Are We Heading?; by a long series of pro-or anti-Soviet special pleaders. Probably the standout pro-Soviet pleading of the year was Soviet Politics by Williams Professor Frederick L. Schuman. The most widely read (75,000 copies) attack: I Chose Freedom, by disillusioned Soviet functionary Victor Kravchenko...
...Chose Freedom, new book by Victor Kravchenko, is a story of the author...
...Kravchenko indicated "understanding and approval." Some days later he was on his way to the U.S. Some months later he repacked his bags, stole out of his Washington boardinghouse. Now he all but calls for a world crusade against "the political regime into which I poured a lifetime of toil and faith." He lives secretly, ducks photographers. Intense, pale-faced, he nervously fiddles with his neat black tie, dismisses unfavorable reviews of his book as the work of charlatans or Communist henchmen...
...readers can hardly check on Freedom's accuracy or candor, except by the internal evidence of names and places. Kravchenko, who writes in Russian, says the English version is an unembroidered rendering of the original (he refuses to name his translator and collaborators because disclosure might be "embarrassing" for Kravchenko). The Republican New York Herald Tribune brushed Kravchenko off as an ex-Communist, out to justify his disaffection. The Herald Tribune, snipped Kravchenko, is a "Park Avenue version of the Daily Worker...