10 JULY 1947, Page 16

" I CHOSE FREEDOM "

SIR,—In your issue of Friday, June 27th, Janus writes in warm terms of Victor Kravchenko's I Chose Freedom, quite naturally, however, adding the proviso that the account it gives of conditions in Russia is authentic. May I respectfully assure him that he will find ample confirmation of Kravchenko's picture of the Soviet regime in One Who Survived, the life story of another escaped Russian, Alexander Barmine, hitherto only published in the United States? Barmine, with military, diplomatic and commercial experience dating from 1917 onwards, inter alia, tells of countless prominent soldiers and civilians, many of them personally known to him, nearly all of whom were executed or " disappeared."— Elizabeth Street, S.W.1. Chairman, British League for European Freedom.