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...Soviet Union's best-known defector, Svetlana Alliluyeva, confessed that last spring she received some "semiofficial" advice from the U.S.S.R. via a visiting Russian musician. She says she was asked to "keep quiet" and write no more. Further, Stalin's daughter -who intends to apply for U.S. citizenship-was also advised not to marry in America. "I told him that I cannot promise," she replied. Not that she has anyone special in mind-but then "how do I know...
Asked about Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Molotov said: "She is three times a traitor-to her fatherland, to her father and to her children...
Last spring, when a left-wing Paris daily said she hated life in the U.S. and longed to return to Russia, Svetlana Alliluyeva felt compelled to reply. Writing from Princeton, N.J., to a friend in Paris, Joseph Stalin's daughter stated she would "never return to Russia." In fact, "last summer, when Moscow began to sling mud at me, I threw my Soviet passport in the fire." Far from disliking the U.S., continued Svetlana, she finds increasing joy in the kindness of Americans and wishes the 16-year-old daughter she left in Russia could meet America...
...Bodley Head publishers, who plan to issue it Aug. 1. Eventually, the Soviets apparently got fed up with all the illicit excitement about the book. Victor Louis, a Moscow-based journalist who has run such other errands for the Russian government as selling a copy of Svetlana Alliluyeva's Twenty Letters to a Friend before its authorized publication, delivered a manuscript to London's Flegon Press; its fate is still uncertain...
...book by Alliluyeva...