Several prior attempts had been made to kidnap or assassinate him. Before he was kidnaped on April 13 Dr. Trushnovich was brutally beaten. He was a marked man by the Soviets because he headed a Russian refugee group which assisted those who had made their way out of the prison camp that is Russia and into the freedom of the West. Certainly the free world powers cannot stand by and allow such inhumane action by Soviet agents to pass without condemnation. Our Government and the United Nations ought to protest this kidnaping with all their strength. and their protest should be coupled with the demand that Dr.