Evening star., 1946-10-11
|RedsRecaII1 Citizens
To Avoid Registration
As Foreign Agents
BY the Asseeioied Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE Soviet
consulate said yesterday II citizens
of the U. S. S. r. who came here
to attend the American Slav Con-
gress, had been ordered home by
their government rather than COM
ply with Justice Department order
for them to register as agents OF a
foreign power.
Anatol Yakovlev, vice consul of
the Soviet consulate general, said
scheduled appearance for the II
persons at Slav mass meeting last
night in Gary, Ind, had been cam
celed and that all would go home
"as soon as arrangements can be
made"
They were among II European
delegates to the third American Slav
Congress, held September % in New
York. In the group were one Czech,
three Bulgars and two Poles.
Russia Makes Representation"
All II were asked by the Justice
Department to register as foreign
agents. MIR. Yakovlev said he had no
information concerning what action
might be taken by the six nonciti-
zens of the U. S. S. r.
He added that his government had
made Representations" to the JUS
tice Department through the State
Department.
In Washington, the Justice and
State Departments refused to COM
ment.
Mr.. Yakolev said each of the II
U. S. S. R. citizens had received let
ters from N T. Elliff, chief of the for
eign agents registration section of
the Justice Department, which told
them they must register under the
Foreign Agents Registration Act or
be subject to possible fine and i'm
prisonment.
Letter Is Quoted.
The letter was dated october 4
and, according to the vice consul,
said in part:
your position as member of
delegation from foreign organiza-
ton and the activities in which you
have been engaged since your entry
into the United States make you
subject to the regulatory provisions
of the act as the agent of foreign
principal"
The letter added that unless an
immediate response" were forth
coming the department would be
forced to conclude that your de-
liberate refusal to comply with the
act constitutes a violation OF the
criminal provisions thereof
Members Of Group Identified.
Included among the U. S. S. r.
citizens were six Russians and five
Ukranians. The Russians, as identi-
fed by Yakovlev, are:
Alexander Korneichuk, play |
wright, formerly Ukrainian foreign
commissar; Gen. Vastly Kozlov,
leader of a White Russian partisan
detachment during the war: 1t. Gen.
Alexander Gundorov, president of
the All-Slav Committee; Lydia
Voinova, former secretary of the
anti-Fascist League OF Russian
Youth; Prof. Timofei Gorbuhov Of 7
White Russia and Alexander Yegur-
now an engineer. /
Mr.. yakovlev identified the Uk-
rainians as:
Ivan Patorzhysnky, prominent
singing member of the Kiev Opera
in the Ukraine capital; Mrs. zoya
Hiaidai, also of the Kiev Opera;
Andrei Malyshko, young poet of
|Kiey;; L,lka Palamarchuk, journal /
ist and chairman of the Ukrainian
delegation: Semen Stefanyk, pro-
fessor of the University of Lwov.
Later, the American Slav Con-
gress, which has headquarters in
New York, said its president, Leo
Krzycki, had written President Tru-
man and Attorney General Clark
requesting that the Justice Depart
ment reconsider its unprecedented
demand"
Mr.. Krzycki's letter termed the
matter IAN unfriendly act toward
the peoples of the Slavic countries
who did so much for our common
victory over the Axis aggressors,"
and said it could "only be inter-
preted as expression of distrust
toward the peoples of allied and
friendly nations"