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be summoned if the committee can
get to her. but that the consulate
like an American home-cannot be
entered forcibly without warrant,
obtainable only if there was rea-
son to believe crime was being
committed on the premises.
Committee Chairman Thomas an
nounced subpoenas were served yes
terday on Mr. and Mrs. Samarin
He did not say where they were
served, or when they would appear
before the committee.
The New York Times said Mr.
Samarin came out of hiding to &C
cept service Of the subpoena on a
midtown Manhattan street, after
arrangements were made through
an intermediary.
At Farm in New Jersey.
Another subpoena was gwen him
for Mrs. Samarin. the Times said,
who was reported hiding at farm
near Freehold. N. j., with the
couples three children.
The Times reported that Mr..
Samarin. after putting his subpoena
in his pocket. grasped the subpoena
servers hand and said: Thank
you
Later, the Times said, Mr.. Sam
arin appeared at its offices and Of
fered a formal statement which
said:
First, the subpoenas by the Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
we're issued for me and my wife at
my request because I want to talk
to some official American body.
Second, l am not being held
against my own will, either by
American police or by any one else.
= I am voluntarily in hiding to
prevent being picked up by Soviet
officials or by the NKVD (Soviet Sc
cret police.
Third. in my statement to the
New York Times on Monday, l said
I was placing myself under the pro-
lection of the American Govern
ment and American public opinion.
Il want to add to that declaration
that my wife and l desire Volun-
tarily to renounce our Soviet cltl-
zenship. We will not under any
conditions return to Russia and
certain death.
Il want to tell truthfully all that
I know about the totalitarian tech
nique and practices of the Soviet
dictatorship and about the condl-
lions of life of the Russian people. y
In demanding custody of the
Samarins, Soviet Ambassador Alex
ander S. Panyushkin asserted in a
formal note to the State Depart
ment Monday that they had been
kidnapped"
Commenting on this, Mr.. Samarin
was quoted by the Times as saying:
Soviet officials are prisoners of
the police mentality and theology Of
their government. From this point
of view they suspect everybody in
the United States of doing the same
as the Soviet power is doing at
home and abroad"
Mr.. Samarln and Mrs. koSenKlna
were teachers in a school for chill
dren of Soviet officials attached to
the United Nations. After diSband-
ing of the school, they were sched-
uled to sail home July 81.
Mrs. Kosenkina came into the
news last Saturday when Soviet
Consulate officials said they res
cued' her from farm at Valley
Cottage, N. Y. operated by the anti
Communist Tolstoy Foundation.
Countess Alexandra T olstoy
daughter of the nov elist, insisted
the teacher had come to the farm
of her own free will and left in
fear of her life
The New York Times quoted Mr..
Samarin as saving he and his family
left New York the night they were
scheduled to sail and stayed in Sc
clusion on farm near Freehold
n. J.
The State Department still had
under study formal reply ex-
pected to reject Ambassador Pany-
usnkin's demand that the Samarins
/ be turned over to custody of the
Soviet Consulate in New York.