BOND NOT WANTED

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31363, 8 May 1967, Page 15

BOND NOT WANTED

(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) MOSCOW, May 7. Official Russia does not think highly of the plan of the English author, Kingsley Amis, to keep the 007 cult alive by writing a new James Bond novel, United Press International reports. The publishers of the late lan Fleming recently announced that Amis would take up where Fleming left off by writing a new book ■bout Bond—oo7 to his adversaries in the wicked world of Communists and other intriguers.

The labour newspaper “Trud” said that Amis’s most popular novel, “Lucky Jim,” enjoyed popularity "because

this softest and most helpless Jim decisively opposed all self-interest and cruelty.” It said that Bond was “a professional murderer, a man with the humour of a hangman, a merciless Don Juan, and an expert on golf and wines.”

“Trud” said that Amis would become the “new supplier of the poisonous pulp literature of James Bond.” Bond books have never been published and Bond movies never publicly shown in the Soviet Union. But some of Fleming’s books have been smuggled into Russia, translated, and handed around in typewritten copies among students and intellectuals who have formed a small 007 cult of their own.