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# NEW YORK TEES✓ 11 January 1970# New Dutch Group Is Publishing Writings of Soviet DissentersBy HENRY RAYMONTA group of West European, virt waters of scholars have set up a non- obsessive fear thu character profit organization, the Alex- sentative said. "They ized the Stolen era," the re٢٢٠ arder Herzen Foundation in that there is nothing in Sowiet Amsterdam disseminate law to prevent them from pub- works by dissident Soviet lishing abroad and they insist w.iters. on exercising their rights."The purpose is to protect the zen Foundation from some of What differentiates the Her- author's name against piracy, the émigré presses that publish, political exploitation, careless manuscripts smuggled out of Hanslations and other compli- the Soviet Union, he main- cations that have often marked! tained, is that it has the ap- the publication in the West of proval of the authors to act manuscripts smuggled out of as their agent abroad.the Soviet Union.With the increasing interestin Soviet dissent, scores ofWestern publishers in recent,months have turned to thefoundation for book rights tosuch works as Andrei Amale)riok's "Will the U.S.S.R. Sur-vive Until 1984?", Anatoly T.Marchenko's "My Testimony,"and essays hy Pavei Litvinov,grandeca of Maxim Litvinov,Soviet Foreign Minister underStalin.Established in 1968The foundation was established in 1968 by Dr. Karel vanhet frie became friendly withliterate at the UniversityLeyden, with support from aofgroup of Dutch businessmen.respondent for a Dutch news-While he was Moscow cor-paper in 1967 and 1968, Dr. vanhet Reve became friendly withseveral writers who asked tobe helped in getting theirbooks published in the West.Though the translations re-ceived wide notice in the West-After he returned to Amster-ern press, little was known dam in 1968, Dr. van het Reveabout the foundation until one was joined by Dr. Jan Besemer.of its representatives came here another Russian literature pro-last week to explain its role fessor, who was also a news-to United States publishers. paper correspondent in Mos-"We received our inspiration cow, and Peter Reddaway, afrom the enlightened efforts of lecturer at the London SchoolAlexander Herzen to defy to- of Economics. One of the in-talitarian methods against Rus- stitute's principal advisers issian authors by publisiring them Max Hayward, a translator ofin the West and sending their Russian literature.books back through a literary The foundation's procédureunderground, the representa is to publish a manuscript intive, who asked not to be iden-Tits original Russian text, there-tified, said in an interview. by insuring copyright, beforeoffering it to publishers inWestern Europe and the Unit-Herzen Had a Journal ed States.Herzen, an aristocratic litera- Since it placed its first bookteur and father of Russian al in the West, Mr. Litvinov'ssocialism, in 1857 started a periodical, Koiokol (The Bell). "Dear Comrade" (publishedin London to publicize his ideas here by Pitman), the organiza-and those of other dissidents tion has supervised transla-hanned by Tsarist autocracy. tions and collected royaltiesThe journal established a long for the authors. It is now pre-tradition of Russian publishing paring several test cases to de-in exile that over the years has termine whether the authorsincluded such authors as Lenin, can be paid through official ac-Gorky, Trotsky and Pasternal:, counts in the Soviet State"The new generation of So- Bank.