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Evening star., 1954-05-23

the Banco do Brasil. The Bra
lillian bank executive conferred
here and in New York in the
last week.
Lower repayments on the $500
million credit have been cham
pioned by a number of Ameri-
can industrialiStS.
The are said to have feared
that Brazil's shortage of dollar
exchange might choke off de-
mand for their products in that
country.
An official of the Export-Im-
port Bank also emphasized that
shipments of capital goods to
Brazil have had far-reaching
benefits in improving the coun-
try's ability to buy American
goods.
Yesterdays announce m n
said the president of the Banco
do Brazil had pledged punctual
repayment of the $500 million
loan in conversations with Sec
retary of State Dulles, Secretary
of the Treasury Humphrey and
Gen. Edgerton.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Smaller Atom Arms
Set, Patterson Says
BY the Associofed Press

NEW YORK, May 22.-Atomic
weapons now are small and light
enough to be delivered by regular
fighter planes. a member of the
Joint Congressional Committee
on Atomic Energy said tonight.
Representative Patterson, Re-
publican, of Connecticut, who
also is a member of the House
Armed Services Committee, men,
toned atomic weapons in a pre-
pared speech to the annual con-
vention of the Marine Corps Re-
serve Officers Association.
Atomic weapons delivered by
fighter aircraft can now be en-
ployed not only to neutralize the
air bases from which an enemy
would strike against an amphib-
louS assault, but also against the
very troops he would use in his
attempt to repel a landing on
his Shore" Mr.. Patterson said.
Mr.. Patterson, a lieutenant
colonel in the Marine Reserve,
was questioned by a reporter
about this reference. He said it
was the first time such a weapon
has been. mentioned publicly but
he declined to add any more de-
tails.
In Washington. however, avia-
ton sources said it has been
known previously that new air.
craft, both fighters and bombers,
now are being equipped for
carrying atomic weapons.
Evening star., 1954-05-23

waters. This statement claimed
that "the incident represents pre-
meditated provocation committed
by an Italian warship and Ital-
ian fishing boats"
] First news of the incident came
from Ancona, Italy, last night.
The Ancona reports said the
Italian gunboat Bracco took pris-
oner the four Yugoslav soldiers
after the soldiers boarded the
Italian fishing boat Giulio Cesare
to force it to sail into a Yugo-
slav port.
Two-HOur Chase.
The report added that Yugo-
slav patrol boats had intercepted
six Italian motor fishing vessels
and opened machinegun fire
wounding the captain and cook
of the vessel Superga. 1t and
four other boats fled and re-
turned to Italy.
However, the Italian report
said, the Bracco cut off the
Giulio Cesare in a two-hour
chase, took the four soldiers
prisoner and turned them over to
Italian police in Ancona. They
were questioned at Ancona and
released tonight.
The official YugoSlav version
of the incident, released only
after the protest was lodged with
Italy, contradicted the Italian
version in most essentials and
mentioned no shooting.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Khokhlov Case Encouraging,
Some MVD Agents Hove Heart

federalists. and so on. differ
ences which no doubt reflect
(though in more pronounced
form) corresponding differences
inside the Soviet Union itself.
Among the great Russian
organizations is the NTS (Na-
tional Labor Union), to which
Okolovich belongs. This prewal
group has been criticized both by
monarchists and Socialists, but
the MvD evidently regard it as
formidable; and it is interesting
to find Khokhlov saying, as he
records in the second INSTALL
ment, 'We know that your or
ganization is active in Russia
and I believe you may be able
to save my family"
Troubles Inside MvD.
His action. coinciding with the
deSertion Of Yuri Rastvorov in
Japan and Vladimir Petrov in
Australia. suggests some. funda-
mental malaise in the MVD, OF
which We can expect to hear
more. Lavrenti Beria's long,
! standing rivalry with the other
security organ, the MGB, which
was supported by the foreign
affairs experts. including Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotoy
and Andrei VishinSky; his last
success in suppressing the MGE
when the Jewish doctors case
was reversed, and his subsequent
fall, are all factors in the weak
ening of MVD morale, but that
is not the whole story.
The strange twists of Khokh-
lows mental processes, to puz-
zling to the Western mind, ring
true to any student of Russian
PSYCHOLOGY.
| When, as readers will read in
the second article, Nine. Okolo-
vich came home and her hus-
band said listlessly. my dear,
this man whose name I don't
know, has been sent from Russia
to kill me-do you think you
could make us some coffee?"-
that was pure Dostoievsky-al-
most Peter Ustinov. The whole
episode of the encounter with
Okolovich is a classic example
of the urge to confession which
is common both to Russian ira
dition and to Communist prin-
ciples.
It is too easy in this atmos-
phere of Bulldog Drummond
melodrama to forget the very
serious moral issues involved.
There is one reaSSuring conclu-
sion. There can be two views
about the ethics of espionage,
but only one about the ethics of
assassination. It is encouraging
that even in the MVD there are
people who can distinguish be-
tween the wartime duties of a
soldier and cold-blooded murder.
Evening star., 1954-05-23

Even then perhaps it was diff
cult to measure the real heroism
of Yanina, my wife. She had
never been outside Russia; she
knew little of the West. For her
there would be anxiety even in
escape. Now, in one moment, she
was facing a series of terrifying
possibilities and yet she could
still provide a conscience for us
both.
In the early morning of Jan
uary 13 we parted. We had had
the time to think over the alter
natives. No one who has not
had to examine those alterna-
tives can ever know what it is
to take the final decision. I
could kill myself or be killed; I
could disappear into the West.
In either case my wife would
vanish into one or other of
Russia'S concentration camps,
and my 49, month old son
would be parted from her.
had to have help, and first I
had to have advice.
There was no one in Russia to
whom 7 could turn. could not
go to the authorities in the West
they might refuse to believe
my story, and I could not help
my family if I were in a Western
prison. If I went to some Or
ganization in German I could
never be sure that it had not
been penetrated by the MVD.
Slowly I began to realize that
there was only one person whom
I could really trust. One man
I could be absolutely sure was
not a Russian agent. That was
the man ! was to murder.
TomOrrOw-Khokhlov Decides
IN nnfA0k % kAA VXy~~<
Evening star., 1954-05-23
FOUND.

CAT, gray, female. Phone 10. 7-3243.
between 8 am. and noon.
fEKNGEsE DOG, N vie. of Falls
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Brazil i|'s=Repayments
On Loan Reduced 70
Stimulate U. 5. 5.'Trade
By Donald B. HodIey

Brazil's central bank will be
permitted to repay as little as
$4.2 million a month on it's $500
million credit from the Export
Import Bank. instead of the
more than $13 million a month
originally scheduled to start in
September.
The reduction is expected to
help Brazil buy heavy machin-
cry, mining and power equip
ment and other capital goods in
the United States.
This was emphasized here yes
terday in a joint announcement
by Maj. Gen. Glen E. Edger-
ton, president of the Export-Im-
port Bank, and Senior Marcos
de Souza Dantas. president of
Evening star., 1954-05-23

killing of a mana Russian"
EYES," she said, "this is the
end"
But even then the moment
of crisis retreated once more.
Neither of us wanted to believe
that it was the end-just as the
prisoner never fails to believe
that he may be led past the next
torture cell. We took it in turns
to hope and to be practical.
Perhaps you can still refuse?"
after they have given me the
whole dossier to read?"
Perhaps they will only send
us all to a camp"
But then we both knew that
this could not be. My wife might
go to a camp, but she would
never see either me or the baby
again; we could not even look
forward to being in hell together.
tried to find some hole in the
net that was closing around us.
I thought I saw a way out. I was
only to be the technical director;
I could leave the two German
thugs to do the job without me;
I could slip away, and then I
could come back. at least with
out the blood on my own hands.
I hardly believed it as I was say
ing it. but it was my wife who
brought me up short.
Wife Places Blame.
"If this man is murdered, you
will still be the murderer. It does
not really matter who pulls the
trigger. This man is a Russian,
and if he is killed, you will no
longer have wife or a child. Do
you really think 1 can live with
a man who has become a COM
mon murderer? Do you think
that will allow you to remain
the father Of AJv1,cbkooD
Evening star., 1954-05-23
By Sir Dovid Kelly


LONDON. May 22.-This is
Nikolai Khokhlov's own story.
Western comment on the affair
Gas previously reported) has
tended to concentrate on the
macabre details of the dummy
cigarettes with the poisoned bull
let's, and the insistence on pub
licity about Nine. Khokhlov's
decisive Intervention. The alle-
cation that one Of the most i'm
portant governments sends
agents with such equipment to
murder inconvenient exiles on
foreign soil seemed to be accept
ed as normal. The reaction
would have been very different
if q similar story had been re-
leased in East Germany substi-
tuting an English defector for
Georgi Sergeyevich Okolovich.
Suppose we had heard that a
department in Whitehall had
sent an agent to murder an
English defector with poisoned
bullets because he was giving
British troops propaganda
against her maiesty's govern
ment, and had first briefed the
agent with -four fat volumes"
containing details about the de-
fector's car registration number.
the approaches to his house and
when the guards were changed?
This would be an exact parallel.
and the mere suggestion flood
lights the absolute difference be-
tween the Western spirit and
that of the totalitarian state.
Little Regard for Life.
On Soviet principles Khokh-
lows assignment was logical and
legitimate. On those principles
the life of an individual human
animal has no value in itself;
only the interest of the Soviet
community counts. For its sake.
many millions of human beings
have been killed or deported in
the last 80 years. There was
therefore nothing odd about Maj.
Gen. Sudoplatov's saying. when
he unsuccessfully tried to saddle
Khokhlov with an earlier murder
assignment, that it was "a SIM
pie enough job and in many ways
an attractive one." and might
even involve the thrill of "using
a new model of fountain pen
with electric firing apparatus
which was almost made for the
job!"
Why was it thought worth
while to take so much trouble to
get rid of Okolovich? Western
Germany still harbors well over
100000 Russian refugees. All
are anti Communist, though di-
vided into a number Of groups
according to their views on the
future of Russia, or on the basis
of national minorities-Byelo-
Russian, West Ukrainian inde-
pendents and East Ukrainian
Evening star., 1954-05-23
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Evening star., 1954-05-23
| Could Not Kill for Russiu
Former Soviet MVD Agent
Tells Why He Turned to West
Wife Firmly Insisted KhokhIov Make
Aqonized Decision to Quit Murder Cureer

tuS which was almost made for
the job. I could have even this
if ! wanted it. I maintained my
objections and my excuses and
he finally let me go.
They did not give up, however,
and next day the agent assigned
to go with me had another try
at making me change my mind.
When he left I knew that
whether had won this skirmish
or not I could now never turn
back, and that night I packed a
few things into bag to be ready
for the dawn knock on the door,
which means in Russia the start
Of the slow, agonizing journey
to the slave labor camp or the
death cell.
The months dragged on, and
the early shock and terror gave
way to Illustration, as I realized
that the gesture which had
seemed so final to me had
scarcely influenced my superiors
at all. The real moment of crisis
was to be stretched and divided
into a whole chain of torture
cells.
Then Another Mission.
I know, too well, that the true
horror of torture was to be alone.
A group can last, two people can
hold out for a long time, but
one man, however brave, must
suddenly face that terrible mo-
ment when the horror of being
alone takes hold of him. I knew
then that, whatever the risks,
my wife and I must make the
next decisions together.
At the end of September,
1858, my new chief, Col. Lev
Aleksandrovich Studnikov, sent
for me. (Sudoplatov had disap-
peared in the purgeS of early
September). He told me that I
had been selected for a most
important mission in Western
Germany. He gave no details
and my previous refusal was
never mentioned.
One week later I was inter-
viewed by M. G. Gribanov, a
high MVD official, who was ap-
parently satisfied that I was
the man for the job and who
gave me the bare details of the
mission. It involved the liquida-
ton of a Russian emigre living
in Germany. The next day I got
the papers to study.
This was Operation Rhein."
It was a splendidly documented
job which filled four fat volumes
and for the first time I learned
the name of the man had been
ordered to kill. 1t was Georgi
Sergeyevich Okolovich, leader of
the anti-Communist Russian or
ganization, NTS.
Wife Sensed Wrong.
I arrived home at my fiat late
that night. My wife was waiting
for me; the baby was already
asleep. She saw almost at once
that something had gone wrong.
"This is the end, I think"
told her. Il have to organize the
Evening star., 1954-05-23
By NikoIoi Khokhlov

LONDON, May 22.-The first
occasion on which I was ordered
to kill a man in peacetime was
in early March, 1852. I still do
not even know who the man was,
because I refused the mission.
I had been called to fiat No.
141 in the Ulitsa Gorkovu, where
I had so often received my Or
ders, and told by my MVD chief,
Mai. Gen. Pavel Anatolievich
Sudoplatov (head of the 9th
otdel for terror and diversion)
that he had another short as
signment abroad in mind for me.
was to travel with another
agent to Paris. via Switzerland,
with fake Swiss papers. and there
meet my contact. After handing
over a package of money to the
contact, who would finger" the
victim, I was to shoot this un-
known and return.
It was, Sudoplatov said, SIM
pie enough job and in many ways
an attractive one. He spoke al
most as though he were doing
me a favor by offering me the
assignment. This was not the
moment of real crisiS-that was
to come almost two years later
but it was, I know, the moment
when I stood at the fork in the
road, and when I realized that
the first great decision had to
be made.
Even then I could not bring
myself to the point of making a
fiat refusal. 1 asked if could
sleep on the proposal and, half
to my surprise, Sudoplatov
agreed. Next day I called again
at the rendezvous and told him
that I must turn down the as
signment; my nerves were in
such a state that I could not be
trusted even on so simple a job.
I waited for recrimination and
abuse; instead Sudoplatov was
strangely mild.
He was disappointed and un-
happy, he said, at my refusal
and he pointed out all the adj
vantageS of the mission. 1t would
be highly confidential-he could
assure me that only he and the
two operatives actually assigned
to the job knew anything about
it; in addition I could have tech
nical assistance or any gadgets
wished. There was, for in
stance, a new model of fountain
pen with electric firing appara-
Evening star., 1954-05-23

Tomorrow-Khokhlov Decides
to Defect to the West.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Yugoslavia Protests
To Italy on Seizure
OF 4 Of lis Soldiers
By the Associofed Pres.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, May
22.-Yugoslavia protested sharply
today to Italy over seizure of
four Yugoslav soldiers by an
Italian gunboat Thursday. Italy
released the four tonight and
arranged for their homeward
passage.
The exchange came against a
background of worsening Yugo-
slav-1talian relations over Tri-
este-long an issue of bitter
dispute between the two coun-
tries. Italy charged Yugoslavia
recently with premature release
of information on behind-the
scenes negotiations for settling
the Trieste dispute.
Ales Bebler, the YugoSlav I'M
derSecretary for foreign affairs,
handed the protest to Duke Fran
cesco Paolo Vanni D'Archirafi,
Italian minister to Belgrade. 1t
alleged Italian violation Of Yugo-
slav territorial waters.
Violation Charged.
Official sources here issued a
statement in connection with the
protest which accused Italy of
giving armed support to fishing
boats which were violating Yugo-
slav regulations on fishing in its
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Poetry Prize Awarded

Richard Bennett O'Keeffe of
935 Kennedy street NV. has
been awarded the Thomas
O'Hagen poetry prize of $25 for
the best poem submitted by an
undergraduate of Catholic Uni
verSity. Mr.. OKeeffe is q junior
majoring in English,
Evening star., 1954-05-23
! Could Not Kill for Russio

Nikoldi EugenyeUich KhoEh-
LOO Is 81, a scholarly, slight,
blond man iDho lDeGrS glasses.
As a member of the Russian
secret police, he tDGs assigned
last fall to murder a Russian
emliore in Germany. Instead,
arriUing in Frankfurt February
II. he turned himself over to
American authorities. Here,
in the first article of a t1Do-
part series, he discloSeS t0hy he
made this decision and the
anguish that lag behind it.
Kodiak mirror., 1954-07-24
NoTIcE

IN THE UNITED STATES
 DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA
 DIVISION NUMBER THREE AT ANCHORAGE
 TERRITORY OF ALASKA. Plaintiff Raymond M. Bllss, Vera or Cecil Brooks. Marlene Marie
 Buchanan. David F. Cleary,
 Jean 5. Dietrich, Frank Don- ney. w. E. Goss, Jack Cal houne Hardin, Vincent E..
 Holmes, Robert c. Jillson,
 Henry M. Johnson, Deacon
 F. Kalmakoff, c. K. McLaran Ali P. Loney. Mildred Offiler, R. A. Paul, David M. Shea, Timothy Smith. John A.
 Sutherman, John Doe and
 Bank of Kodiak,
 Defendants Civil File No. A-9832 SIMMONS THE PRESIDENT OF THE
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEPENDENTS
 GREETINGS:
 You are hereby required to appear in the District Court for the District of Alaska, Third Division, Anchorage,
 and show cause, if any, on or before the 18th day of Septem~ Der 1854 why title to all of the monies and interest earned, presently on deposit under your name in the Bank of Ko-. diak, Kodiak, Alaska, should not vest in the Territory of A.. Iaska under the escheat laws of said Territory for the req. son that the owners or per- sons entitled to the possession thereof have not claimed the same for a period of more than seven (7l years. ....,.,,,s,. WITNESS the Honorable U } L; l. McCarrey, Jr* Judge of said Court, and the seal of said Court hereunto fixed, on this 9th day of July, 1854. s4.
 . Wm. A. Hilton, Clerk
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-07-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Laverne Carter Of
Canton; Goodsell Carter of Cuya-
hoga Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Bryslan, Mr.. and Mrs. Miiey
Downey and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Carter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Shany and children, Ber-
nard DoWney and family of
GAINESVILLE; Mr.. and Mrs. Ansel
Sayre and daughter of Ava; Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Sayre, Mr.. and
Mrs. D. H. Sayre, H. T. Groves,
A w. Shackle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Gardner of Cambridge; Mr..
and Mrs. H. d. Carter of Sum
merfield route; Faye and Rich
ard Groves of Sarahsville route;
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard Johnson
of Caldwell; Mr.. and Mrs. Den
mis- Hackley, Linda Rogers of
Lakewood; Mr.. and Mrs. Myron
Hackley, Ginny Hackley Of
Strongsville; Anna and John
Kirkbride Of Kimbolton; Mr.. and
Mrs. Jay Bradshaw and son of
GAINESVILLE; Mr. and Mrs. Will
liam Thomas. Mr.. and Mrs. c.
T. Downey and family and Mr.,
and Mrs. Wayne Webb and chill
dren of Columbus; Mr.. Harold
DoWney, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Downey, Mrs Lelah Humphrey
of New Concord.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-07-22
WIS { or
OTHER RWISE
By E. o. BOND

A thankful heart is the great
est virtue. - Cicero.
Gratitude is the memory of
the heart Massieu.
Trouble is usually produced by
those who can't be bothered to
turn out anything else,
Summer Resort - A place
where you try to convince your
self you're having a good time
while wishing you were back
home really enjoying yourself.
A long face and broad smile
are hardly ever found under the
same hat.
What the modern woman likes
best about her swim suit are the
masculine eyes fastened on it.
The best of friends will wear
out if we use them too much.
A person who has push will
quickly overcome one who dep
ends upon pull.
Assistance given to the weak
often makes the one who gives
it strong.
A dollar still goes along way
if you carry it around in your
pocket while you're trying to
buy something with il.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-07-22
YOUR
ELECTION
LAWS

We are welcoming d great
number Of new voters" to the
polls this year. Consequently, we
would like 10 call attention to
persons who are now 90 years
Of age but viii be II before Nov
ember 2, 1854, that they may re-
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IN Ohio where registration is re-
CURED so that they may vote at
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The law in Ohio specifically
provides that it is not necessary
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date Of registration - it is only
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Persons who will have been
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many counties having reglStra-
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for the taking of registration, OF
viii open each polling place in
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