V-V & Friends

Dark, swaggering Anastasi Andrevitch Vonsiatsky had the background and the trappings. When he was twelve years old he saw his father murdered by Bolsheviks. In Paris, an exile, then 22, he met the wealthy daughter of a millionaire Chicago steel baron. they came to the U.S. and were married.

On their 200-acre estate in wooded northeast Connecticut, Voniatsky (known to his friends as "V-V") dabbled in political theory, planned revenge on the Soviets. He formed the "All-Russian Fascisti in America." He built a fortress-cabin with 18-inch walls of fieldstone; stocked it with guns, ammunition, tear gas. As his party's symbol, Vonsiatsky adopted a swastika. he talked freely to reporters, boasted of his connections with White Russian Guard in Manchukuo.

But this shadow play ended seriously last week. G-men raided his library and "arsenal," charged that for eleven months before Pearl Harbor Vonsiatsky had conspired with four others to send military secrets to Germany and Japan.

Also indicted was another curious character: Hitler-mustached Gerhardt Wilhem Kunze, successor to jailed Fritz Kuhn as Fuehrer of the German-American Bund. vonsiatsky, the Goverment charged, learned from the Japs what military information was wanted, then send Kunze to Mexico to transmit what had been gathered. Last week Kunze was still at large. Vonsiatsky was napped by FBI. His lawyer asked that he be sent to an insane asylum because of his "dangerous" condition. The Government though jail would do.

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