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Last week the most widely read author in the country faced the possibility of deportation proceedings. The charges against him would be the facts, which he swore to be true, that he had written in his book. The author: "Jan Valtin," whose autobiographical Out of the Night is the life and hard times of an ex-Communist spy who fell into the hands of the Gestapo. It is the season's literary hot cake...
Sleuths deduced, from his own account of a prison term he served in San Quentin in 1926, that Valtin's real name is Richard Julius Herman Krebs. He wrote that he left the jail "in the first days of December, 1929." The only man who fitted Valtin's description of himself and who left San Quentin at that time was Convict Krebs. Charges on which he could be deported were his admittedly illegal entrance, his former membership and activity in the Communist Party in Germany...
...Valtin-Krebs was living last week in New York with his girl-wife, 17-year-old Abigail Harris. Around the former German terrorist and Red agent swirled a storm of conjecture and argument: was his autobiography true or a hoax? Valtin-Krebs & friends said it was true; no respectable evidence has yet been produced to show that it was anything else. And if it was true, under present alien laws, he was liable to deportation back to the Germany whence he had fled...
...labor agita tors to create the false impression with the public. This is the same group which introduced the 'sitdown' strikes to Amer ica and the reign of terror which followed. . . . These former 'sit-downers,' whose acts of terror in Michigan industry alone make Jan Valtin's revelations in Out of the Night seem like Mother Goose stories, would now sabotage the Defense Program of the nation to satisfy their greed for dues and more dues...
...with non-interventionist implications were such as would discredit our point of view (The Wave of the Future). Though manifestly intended to provide Harvard students with a factual and interpretive basis for understanding the issues of today, the "war library" has eventually emerged with the lurid confessional of Jan Valtin prominent among its volumes. I consider this an insult to the intelligence of undergraduates...