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RUSSIA ACCLAI BY MISS HELLMAN! Home, She Says Soviet Will Deal With Fascism—Hopes We Do the Same in U. s., , cael . WK - a g ack this comment u from the Red Army front: “We'll take care of fascism on the Euro- pean Continent, and hope that You'll take care of jt on the Ameri- can.” . The firat civilian foreigner to visit the Red Army front, Miss Hellman returned Tuesday after four months in Russia as guest of the Soviet Government. At the Russian front ashe held two “‘dis- cussions” With righ-ranking Redj Army men. Asked “What will the United States do about Argen- tina?” Miss Hellman countered, “What will Russia do about Fran- co?" In reply, the Soviet soldier declared Russians will handie fas- cism in Europe and hoped Ameri- cans will do likewise on this con- tinent. . Reporting on her second visit to Russia (the first was in 1937) at a press conference in her new home, 63 East LEighty-second Street, Miss Hellman deciared Rua- sions are a “polite, Puritan, ro- mantic, terrific’ people sbout whom too little is known, too much tmilsunderstood. Failed to See Stalin Miss Hellman failed to see Stalin, but his secretary sent her his message: “very sorry... . but too busy with the Poles." However, Miss Hellman spent the week be- fore Warsaw fell in the secret headquartera of Gen. Gregory K. Zhukoff. St. Basil’a Cathedral wes opened for her in Moscow. Every- where, Soviets proudly showed her “AMerican-made goods,” from trucks, jeeps and planes, to sheets and sweaters in hospitals, Vodka toasts were always to the great American Army, the great Ameri- can people and to Mr. Roosevelt. “Russians hoped the American and British Armies would meet empties — there ‘was no word ,of who wo get there first,” the Playwright related, "P=" a ae SRAPR3 BSA | (plane, frerrteetebanks dpeugheSi- Flying to Moscow in a Russian beria, Miss Hellman made the trip ‘in fourteen days late last Septejn-|: -ber. On the final, most difficult || ‘ap of the flight, a Rusian woman served as co-pilot. Miss Hellman: ‘returned by way of Cairo to Eng- land, where she spent a month. ~She will go back next fall or win- ‘ter to write a film for the Eritish Ministry of Information. Mean- while she is writing the screen version of hehr play, “The Search- ing Wind.” . Last night, her earlier drama, “Watch on the Rhine,” opened in! ‘Moscow. The motion picture, “The! ‘North Star,” for which she wrote ‘the origins! script, also has been 'Teleased in Russia. Both screen and stage ahowings of her play “The; ‘Little Foxes” are pending here. Limits Political Remarks As guest of VOX, the Soviet, Union's office of cultura] relations with foreign nations, and specifi- cally as a playwright declining the role of “expert” on Russia, Miss Hellman lUmited her political re- marks. j - “I wouldn't want to see Com- munism here,” she said. “We're never going to have ft. It ia no problem with us. I see no signa of it here.” The Crimean Charter ‘issued at Yalta Miss Hellman hailed as “wonderful” and “exciting.” She found the Red Army “too well dis- ciplined” for individual reprisals against Germany, but was im- pressed by the Russians’ resolu- tion for “complete and absolute puniahment” of German war crim- als. “Artists are treated lke kings in Russia in the respect and re- muneration accorded them,” Miss Hellman said. She considers con- temporary Soviet music “better,” but literature “worse,” than Amer- Although Leningrad “ha t city ity,” tte destruction was “not as bad as that in Lon-|, don,” Miss Hellman seid. Speaking little Russian, Miss Hellman read voraciously during her visit, even Dickens. e “com- pletely forgot" about an interview abe was to have with Field Mar- ‘commander of the German Sixth “page New Yor. Clipped at the Seat of Government. Air. Pennington ..-.. Mr, Quinn Tamm... 1420-25760 aN NOT RECORDED \ 63 MAR 19 1945 ‘ - oe This is a clipping from of the ines for Peecle 2000