Evening star., 1948-08-20

AASo ooV AL plAS ~ VA eAlS
Consul General. In view OF the cir
cumstances. the Department of
State considers the actions of the
New York police authorities entirely
proper.
From the foregoing it appears
that the representations Of the So
Wet government in regard to these
cases have been based upon misin-
formation. In this connection the
reports submitted to the Depart
ment Of State show that the Soviet
Consul General in New York, Mr..
Y. I. Lomakin. after having made
statements which were the basis of
the serious charges against this
Government and its officials, him
dered the investigation of the COM
petent police officials by refusing
TO allow them to interview Mrs.
Kasenkina. This action was the
more serious in view of the subse-
quent statements by Mrs. Kasen-
kina to the effect that she jumped
from the window of the Consulate
General in order to avoid having
to return to the Soviet Union. In
addition to the statement made by
Mrs. Kasenkina that she was COM
PEELED to make in press interview
false statements which had been
dictated to her, the Consul General
has himself made or issued state
hents to the press which, in view
of all the evidence available, the
Department of State can only con-
clude were deliberately designed to
mislead the American public in re-
gard to serious charge involving
the United States Government.
The United States Government con-
siders that Consul General Lo-
makin's conduct constitutes an
abuse Of the prerogatives of his
position and gross violation OF the
internationally accepted standards
governing the conduct of foreign
officials. The Department of State
is therefore requesting the Presi-
dent to revoke the exequatur issued
TO Consul General Lomakin, and 1t
is requested that he leave the United
States within reasonable time.
Department OF State,
Washington, August 10, 1e48.
Unitialed) L.
. FOLLOWING Is tert OF the note
from the Embassy OF the Union
OF Souiet Socialist Republics to
the Department OF State dated
August 9, 1913:
The Embassy of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics presents
its compliments to the Department
of State and has the honor to COM
municate the following:
On July 81, 1948, the sudden dis
appearance of the Soviet citizens
Oksana Stephenovna Kasenkina, 81,
teacher by profession, and Mikhail
Ivanovich Samarin, 40, a teacher by
profession, with his wife, Klavdia
Mikhailovna Samarina, and their
children, Tatiana, Elena and Vladi-
mir, was discovered. 1t must be
pointed out that all the aforesaid
persons were ready to depart from
the u S. A. for the Soviet Union on
the steamship Pobeda on July 81
and had all the necessary of1icial
documents and passage tickets.
However, for reasons unknown at
that time, Kasenkina and Samarin,
with his family, did not come TO the
Pobeda at the moment of
its departure, nor were they in the
apartments occupied by them as has
been subsequently ascertained.
On August 6 of this year Y. M.
Lomakin, Consul General of the
U. S. S. R. at New York, received a
letter from o. S. KaSenkina in which
she implored him to snatch her from
the hands of the organiza tion-the
so-called "Tolstoy Fund" to Whose
farm, the Reed Farm" Valley Cot
tage 4, she had been forcibly car
ried from her apartment on July 81
of this year.
Visited Address.
On the following day the Consul
General of the U. S. S. r. at New
York went to the address indicated
by Kasenkina and, with his assist
ance. O. S. Kasenkina left the farm.
In this connection it should be
noted that the heads of the organi-
zation, A. L. Tolstaya and NJ A.
knutson, attempted to detain Ka-
senkina by force in spite of her
categorical statement to them that
she wished to leave with the Consul
General, and did not want to re-
main at the farm.
AS o. S. Kasenkina has reported,
the members Of the organization,
which Is headed by A. Tolstaya and
M. Knutson, kept after her long be-
fore the day of her departure for
the Soviet Union, trying to induce
her by intimidation and threats
not to return to her fatherland. In
this connection they did not even
stop at applying a narcotic injection
with the obvious purpose of weak
ening her consciousness and will.
On the day of Kasenkina's intended
departure for the fatherland, MEM
bers of this organization carried her
away from her apartment to the
farm mentioned above and forcibly
kept her there. During Kasenkina's
stay on the farm from July 81 to
August 6, 1948, A. Tolstaya con-
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