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Bertolt Brecht — Part 1
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OCCASION AND THAT SHE SHOULD KNOs IP URS WOOLIJOKI - oe : a Vee, ate
KECEIVED THE WINES FROM THE RUSSIAN LEGATION OR was Totes —
HE COMPELLED TO BUY FRENCH WINES STOP THE SOLUTION a ae
’ OF ABOVE NANED NATTERS IS VERY DAPORTANT FOR MRS =
UOLIJOKY BECAUSE SHE IS ACCUSED FOR HER RELATIONS -_
TO TH SOVIET AND ESPECIALLY TO TERENTJEFF STOP IF - —_ es
THERE IS SOMETHING YOU HAVE NOT FULLY UKDERSTOOD fF er
_ PLEAS? CABLE STOP MKS BRECHT SHOULD ALSO SIGN THe 2 | ere cee tee et
Se STATZEnT* . ; foe
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This source explained the above message by advising tnt ge —ti(<‘ OC!
QR «the ponder, is a famous Swedish lawyer jin Stockholm, Sweden, who oe
- de acting on behalf of a Finnish lawyer inasmuch as Finland cannot communicate.
directly with the United States. lirs. Fz TOOLIJOEI fe a Finnish playwright .... |
and was « friend of Mr. and Mrs. BERT BRECHT when they were in Helsingfors a | -
year before coming to the United States in July 1941. Mrs. WUOLIJOKI hed
relations with Russia and a Russian named TERSNTJEFF during peacetime, and °
because of these relations she was on trial and had to explain their nature.
MARCUERITE STEYFIN, now dead, was a former colleborator of BERT BRECHT in the — -
40 Bs boy BST Ves
translation of the menoirs of one ANDERSEN NEXOE, a great Danish novelist.
This translation was sold to a publishing house in Moscow. dust prior to the .
time BRECHT, his wife, and NARGUERITE STEFFIN were about to depart for the ..-
United States, the Russian Consulate mde difficulties about paying renit- co
tances from the Russian publisher, and inasmuch as KARGUERITE STEFFIN needed =”
money before she could leave Finland, BRECET suggested that she canplain to _
TERENTJEFF, who was a commercial expert with the Russian Consulate in Helsing-
fora and a friend of Mrs. MUOLIJOXI. TERENTJEFF immediately proposed to sdvance —
STEFFIN 8,000 Finnmarke and then collesot this advance from the Russian Consulate.
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Mra. WOOLIJOEI also arranged contracts between Hussian and Finnish econois -
experts and diplomats in the form of dinners at the request of TERPNTJEFF.
For one of these dinners TERSWTJEFF promised to obtain Caucasian or Russian =~
. wine, but did not do ao and Mrs. WUOLIJOXI was forced to buy expensive Frenoh
-° ° wine for the dinner. . ee
This source further advised in regard to this mtter that on Septenber
3, 1943, Qe wee Stockholm, Sweden, received a message stating that the
@sedieh Vice Consulete had seen natariead statements by Mr. and ira. BERT BRECHP
Orvudaweis tie ie ee Fe ee GA es ee ee eet etBE
to the effect that TERINTJZFF borrowed the translation fee from Nrse. WOOLIJOKL
and had promised to pey her for the dinner wines.
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Again on Hovenber 26, 1943, nocording to thie source, GED was
_ the recipient of a message stating that friends of Mrs. WUOLIJOKI were anxious
po to learn of her fate. This message was signed, “American writer NAN” .
‘3° > Swedish-American writer EDI}s-TORRIS,” and requested that QR «ire nows = -
i. concerning Mra, WOOLIJOEZI to HUTH-ZERLAU, 124 East 57th Street, New York City, { .
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@ Kiows Gsscciats of BERT BRECHT, 00000 esta tent
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