SOVIET TEACHER UPHOLDS AUTHOR IN LIBEL SUIT
PARIS, Feb. 9. The courtroom where the libel suit brought by Victor Kravchenko, against the Communist weekly, Les Lettres Francaise is being heard was the scene of arguing and a grisly anti-Communist story today. Nikolai Lagovsky, who said he was Kravchenko’s schoolteacher in Russia, declared: “I read his book “I Chose Freedom” and can state that all he says is true.” Referring to Kravchenko’s description of the horror of farm collectivisation in Russia, he added: ‘‘l saw a woman who had eaten her six-year-old child.” Kravchenko’s lawyer, M. Georges Izard said that Kravchenko was listed as a director of a Russian steel pipe factory in a document signed by Mr. Molotov. The defence counsel, M. Nordmann,. stated: "Kravchenko is an imposter. .He was never a director of a heavy metal factory." M. Izard retorted: "You would be purged in Moscow for denying what Mr. Molotov has written."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22868, 11 February 1949, Page 5
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