WITNESSES CALLED BY KRAVCHENKO
SURRENDER DEMANDED BY RUSSIA PARIS, February 21. Russia has asked France to hand over “as war criminals” three witnesses who appeared for Victor Kravchenko, the author of “I Chose Freedom,” at the hearing of his libel suit against a Paris newspaper. Tass says that the demand was made in a Note from the Soviet Embassy to the French Foreign Ministry. The three men named in the Russian Note are Michael Passetchnik, Ivan Krevsoun and Mikolai Antonov. All three came from displaced persons’ camps to say that they had been brutally treated and imprisoned by Russian secret police. The Note described the men as "Soviet citizens who served Hitler’s army and took part in crimes by the Hitlerian invaders on temporarily occupied territories of the Soviet Union.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25736, 23 February 1949, Page 5
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