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JOURNEY BETWEEN FREEDOMS(281 pp.)-Tanya Matthews-Westminster...
...Tanya Svetlova meant less to the London Daily Herald correspondent for whom she translated Russian newspapers than his typewriter did. Or so she thought. While he clicked out copy in Moscow's Hotel Metropole, she carted out the empty vodka bottles, lined up tickets for a concert of the Leningrad Jazz Band, checked on laundry, and even darned his socks. Then one day, before she could so much as say Komsomolskaya Pravda, Journalist Ronald Matthews proposed...
...Tanya remembers it, he dropped to his knees and said: "I have traveled all over the world and never found a girl like you-I've got a set of false teeth-and I want to have a son as soon as possible-will you share the life of a modest writer? . . . Will you be my wife?" Eighteen months later, in February 1944, Tanya Matthews, her husband, and their infant son flew out of the U.S.S.R. toward England and the freedom of the West...
...exchange of prisoners between Russia and Rumania, Moscow asked for and got Ana; she became a Soviet citizen. About that time her husband disappeared. (His probable fate: execution as a Trotskyite after Ana turned him in to Soviet police.) Their son, Vlad, is in the Rumanian Army. Daughters Tanya and Marie are in school...
...Tanya was her name. She spoke not a word of English and my store-bought Russian was far too skimpy to convey all that I would have said to her. One beautiful August day, I haltingly invited her to flee with me to the United States. She returned the jest, pleading in mock-seriousness that it was I should flee with...