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~ L A 100-16112 OCCASION AND THAT SHE SHOULD KNOW IF URS WUOLIJOKI - RECEIVED THE WINES FROM THE RUSSIAN LEGATION OR MAB SHE COMPELLED TO BUY FRENCH WINES STOP THE SOLUTION OF ABOVE NAMED NATTERS IS VERY DPORTANT FOR MRS . “TOCLIJOXI BECAUSE SHE IS ACCUSED FOR HER RELATIONS . TO THE SOVIET AND ESPECIALLY TO TERENTJEFF STOP IF — THERE IS SOMETHING YOU HAVE NOT FULLY UKDERSTOOD . PLEASE CABLE STOP MKS BRECHT SHOULD ALSO SIGN THE . sae ates STATHENT® . 0 This source explained the abore message by advising that qe QEMBRI =the sender, is a fanous Swedish lawyer in Stockholm, Sweden, who 4e acting on behalf of w Finnish lawyer inasmuch as Finland cannot comunicate directly with the United States. Iirs. RZ! TOOLIJOKI fe a Finnish playwright .... and was @ friend of Mr. and Mrs. BERT BRECHT when they wore in Helsingfors a year before coming to the United States in July 1941. Mrs. WUOLIJOKT hed relations with Russia and a Russian named TERUNTJEFF during peacetime, and . because of those relations ashe was on trial and had to explain their nature. — MARGUERITE STEFFIN, now dead, was a former collaborator of BERT BRECHT in the . translation of the menoirs of ons ANDERSEN NEXOE, a great Danish novelist. This transletion was sold to a publishing house in Moscow. Just prior to the time BRECHT, his wife, and MARGUERITE STEFFIN were about to Gepert for the ..-.. United States, the Russian Consulate mde difficulties about peying renit- tances from the Russian publisher, and inasmuch ae MARGUERITE STEFFIN needed money before she could leave Finland, BRECHT suggested that she conplainto —_ TERENTJEFF, who was a commercial expert with the Russian Consulate in Helsing- fors and a friend of Mrs. MUOLIJOXI. TERENTJEFF immediately proposed to advance SIEFFIN 8,000 Finnmrke end then collect this advance from the Russian Consulete. Mrs. WOOLIJOKI also arranged contracts between Hussian and Finnish econonto experts and diplomats in the form of dinners at the request of TERPNIJEFF. For one of these dinners TERENTJEFF promised to obtain Caucasian or Russian ~~ wine, but did not do so and Mrs. WUOLIJOKI was forced to buy expensive French “ wine for the dinner. . This source further advised in regard to this mtter that on Septenber 3, 1943, Qe eees> Stockholm, Sweden, received a message stating that the Swedish Vice Consulate had seen notarized statements, by Mr. and ifrs. BERT BRECET to the effect that TERENTUJ=FF borrowed the transiation fee from Krs. WUOLIJOKI and had promised to pay her for the dinner wines. Again on Hovenber 26, 1943, according to thie source, GD was the recipient of a message stating that friends of Mrs. WUOLIJOKI were anxious to learn of her fate. This message was signsd, “American writer MANU" L ZOUROPF Swedish-American writer ED[TsTIORRIS," and requested that QEEEEEy «ire nows concerning Mra, WOOLIJOZI to KUTH-SERLAU, 124 East 57th Street, New York City, @ know associate of BERT BRECET. mh PEs TT reese oo | yur