from Geoff, Coggan*
The following letter has been received by Lord Russell from Dimiter Kostov of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency: "T am sending you the number of our world events weekly Po Sveta, which carried in full your introductory speech at the opening of the First Session of the International War Crimes Tribunal, your statement at the press conference, and all other documents of the Session. I thank you with all my heart for the kind letter to Po Sveta, which was also given prominence. I am writing also to Dr. Vladimir Dedijer, our mutual friend, whom I am also profoundly grateful to for his help. In our dailies we published an account of what was written in the number of Po Sveta that was given up to the tribunal set up by you and we arranged a special radio broadcast about it. It is hardly necessary for me to say that this number of our magazin evoked enormous interest. Your struggle against the criminal war being waged by the U.S.A. in Vietnam has the full sympathy of the Bulgarian people. Letters from our readers have been arriving at our office, letters expressing admiration for your courage and firmness. Some have been asking us for your address so that they might mail you their congratulations. I am enclosing one of the latest numbers of Literatouren Front, the weekly organ of the Union of Bulgarian Writers. This number of the paper gives prominence to an article written by Lyudmil Stoyanov, the distinguished Bulgarian writer and public figure, about your struggle, about the International Tribunal. The article is written on the basis of the number of our magazine that was dedicated to the setting up of the International Tribunal and Stoyanov quotes your statements at length and gives an ac ount of your views, I am also sending another number of our magazine that also contains an article by you and also numbers with an article by Jean-Paul Sartre and with an interview with Dr. Vladimir Dedijer. (Im the interview I make special mention of your friendship with Dr. Dedijer). I can assure you that Vietnam is always one of the topics on the pages of our magazine. That is the reason why we cannot pass over in silence another fact, a fact which has caused us much grief and has evoked our profound indignation - John Steinbeck's Letters to Alicia. He is wellknown to the Bulgarian reading public and that is one more reason why we could not pass his infamy over in silence. We printed in full the first three Letters taken from the Newsday. We also published a commentary by our New York correspondent and an Open Letter of the Po Sveta magazine to Steinbeck and statements by distinguished public figures and newsmen on different aspects of the Vietnam problem, statements that we have already given to our magazine. We have taken your statements from the introductory speech of November 13, 1966. The nwaber of the magazine is headlined: "Steinbeck Against the Truth". xGeoff, Coggan is the Press Officer of the International War Crimes Tribunal