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My lawsuit against those persons who were implicated in plundering me and guilty in all of my sufferings, to wit: charging me with Bolshevism, etc., which had been tried before the Supreme Court of Bayonne, N. J., all of a sudden had been discontinued without my knowledge. And when I have made an official inquiry, the court official told me that the trial took place in June, 1923, and that the case was left without results and refused to give any further explanations. Meanwhile, a short time thereafter, to wit: in the fall, during my absence when I went to Los Angeles about the business of my film, somebody availed himslef of my material, stolen from me during the same plundering by the Ku-Klinski of Bayonne, and turned it over to the press. Several articles from this material were published in the newspaper "Novy Mir" (The "New World"). Who turned them over to the editorial office I can only guess, for I did not as yet succeed to get an official information from the editorial office of that newspaper regarding this matter. In answer to my inquiry the editorial office has referred to the German newspaper "Folkszeitung." However, when I requested to show me a copy of that newspaper they could not give it to me but tried by all means to evade the issue with all kinds of excuses, that I could get more detailed explanation from editor Borisoff, who just happened not to be in but would be to-morrow, and finally,—never. In the same time, to wit: in August, not being able to endure it any longer, I made up my mind to look for justice by publsihing a book, however, not for sale, but for the purpose of familiarizing with this matter those whom it may concern, among the American, as well as Russian public men, and also by producing a film.

For this purpose I went to the Department of Justice at Washington, accompanied by my lawyer, Mr. Beder, of 15 Park Row, New York, where at a personal interview with Mr. Nathan, who has introduced himself as Assistant to the Attoreny General, I had been