A SOVIET HOSTAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 September 1934, Page 9

A SOVIET HOSTAGE.

PROFESSOR'S WIFE HELD. EVEN SHAW'S APPEAL FAILS. . MOSCOW, August 15. The Soviet Government has moved to force the return of Professor Dimitri Pa-vlovitch Krymirne, of Yale University, to his native Russia by sending his wife into exile, it wae learned to-day. Mme. Krymime, removed from Moscow to an unknown province, has not been imprisoned, it was emphasised. Disclosure of the banishment brought into prominence again the sensational case involving Krymime's refusal to return to Russia from the United States and the consequent refusal of the Soviet Government to grant Mme. Krymime the passport necessary for her to leave Russia and rejoin her husband in America. Two-year Fight Recalled. Two years ago the New Haven professor telegraphed George Bernard Shaw,' Irish author, and Lady Astor, British Parliamentary leader,' who were then in Moscow,, asking them to use their good offices to obtain a passport for his wife. Both Shaw and Lady Astor, through the mediation of Moscow literary circles, attempted to obtain aid for Mme. Krymime, but their efforts availed nothing. The professor's wife, separated from her husband' and son since 1925. explained at that time that "I have applied three times for permission to go to America, and each time there has been a refusal without explanation." Krymime, in America, said he had been unable to "do anything myself. , ' Government Spurns Pleas. "They (the Government) didn't even answer my letters and cablegrams," he said. The- professor was sent from Russia to America some years ago to study road building methods in the United States. He incurred official wrath when he ignored repeated commands to return. It was generally and tacitly understood, it was learned, the Government's action in exiling Mine. Krymime was to place her in that position of hostage for her husband's return to Soviet Russia.