The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-07-09

lN.T.S.
THE INITIALS N.T.S. stand for
National Rudovoi Soouz, meaning
National Alliance of Solidarists.
The National Alliance of Soli-
darists is Russian refugee group
which wages psychological war
fare inside Russia against the god
less government which holds that
nation in slavery.
BY extension, N.T.S also stands
for Russian words we bring death
to the tyrants." and I'VE bring
freedom to the t0ilers."
The efforts of N.T.S. inside Rus
sia obviously have been having
their effect. The Soviet govern
ment has grown to dislike N.TS.
intensely.
The Soviet secret police, there
fore, supplied Nikolai Khokhlov
with a cigaret case in which was a
concealed mechanism that fired
poisoned bullets.
Nikolai was ordered to enter
western Germany, find Georgi
Okolovich. the head of N.T.S. and
murder him.
NIKoLAl WENT HOME and
told his wife about it. He describes
her as a young and pretty woman,
mother of his 18-month-old son,
and good Catholic who secretly
practiced her religion.
Janina Khoklhov did not hesi-
tate for a moment
She told Nikolai flatly that if he
carried out his assination assign
ment, he should consider himself
no longer her husband, no longer
! the father of her child.
i will not" she said, be the wife
of a murderer. My son will not be
the son of murderer"
With magnificent courage Jan
ina laid it on the line for Nikolai
God, she told him, forbids mur-
der. He must obey God rather than
the Goddess Soviet government.
l CAN IMAGINE their long CON
versation
can hear Nikolai pointing out to
Janina that if he did not murder
Okolovich as he ordered, he was
doomed, she was doomed, their son
was doomed.
That's the way Communist "jus-
tice" operates.
But Janina Khoklhov knows that
there is higher justice - jus
tice that endures forever.
She told Nikolai to go to West
Germany, and give himself up.
But what about you and our
SOM" Nikolai must have asked
in anguish.
And Janina replied that she and
the little one would be in the hands
of God. God is God, and right is
right, and no government can
change that
NIKoLAl TRIED to set up an ar
rangement by which his wife and
child would be smuggled out of
Russia.
Then he crossed through the iron
curtain, and surrendered to Amer
lean authorities, to whom he told
his story.
His wife and child did not get
out of Russia
/ They were reported recently TO
have disappeared from the Khokh-
low apartment in Moscow.
There is a bare possibility that
they have gone underground: that
some underground organization is
caring for them; that in the end
they, 700, will turn up this side OF
the iron curtain.
MORE PROBABLY, Janina has
been executed, or is in a dun
geon, or has been put to slave la
bor The child, in all likelihood, has
been taken from her and handed
over to some government-operated
atheist institution.
One way or another, Janina
Khokhloy has made. for God and
His justice, the kind of sacrifice
that Christ taught on the cross.
And Nikolai has made dreadful
and wonderful sacrifice, too.
This is the kind of heroiSm that
has never been uncommon in Rus
sIa, II is the kind of heroism which
sooner or later, is going TO result
in the overthrow of the unspeak-
able Soviet tyranny, and the return
of Russia to Christendom, to the
family of nations.
When that happens. what chang.
eS we shall see on EARTH
Janina Khokhloy is heroine for
God and mankind | should like
the privilege of kissing the hem