SOVIET ATTACK ON RUSSIANS WHO SHOWED UP CAMPS

Grey River Argus, 23 February 1949, Page 5

SOVIET ATTACK ON RUSSIANS WHO SHOWED UP CAMPS

PARIS, Feb. 21 Russia has asked France to hand over “as war criminals,” three witnesses who appeared for Kravchenko at the hearing of his libel suit against a Paris newspaper. The Tas Agency says that the demand was made in a Note from the Soviet Embassy, to the F rench Foreign Ministry. The three men named in the Ktbsian Note were Michael PassetchmK, who appeared as a character witness for Kravchenko, Ivan Krevsoun and Mikolai Antonov. All three came front displaced pelsons’ camps to tell of brutal treatment and imprisonment by the Russian secret police. The Note described the men «s “Soviet citizens who served in H’tl°r's army and took part in the crimes by the Hitlerian invaders on the temporarily-occupied territories of the Soviet Union.”