Naturally, she knows the English alphabet, but she doesn't read too much.
**Sometimes I read on my own, but on the other hand, it might be entirely different for an American.
Senator RUSSELL. Well, I believe you can speak it pretty well, Mrs. Oswald. You are a very intelligent person, and I've never seen a woman yet that didn't learn a foreign language three times as fast as a man.

Mrs. Oswald.

Thank you.
Senator RUSSELL. They all do, and in some places in Russia you run into women that speak three or four languages very fluently, including in the high schools, where they have 10 or 12 years of English, starting in the first grade with it?

Mrs. Oswald.

That's the way they try--to learn it in school.
Senator RUSSELL. Is that your foreign language? I understand in Russia each student has to study some one foreign language all the way--or at least for 5 or 6 years?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes; but I don't like this system of education in Russia to study some languages--well, he can speak, you know.
Senator RUSSELL. Mrs. Oswald, your attorney--your then attorney, according to the record, asked the Commission some questions about your memoirs, your diary or whatever it was that you have written--your reminiscences, and that they not be release. Have you ever made arrangements yet to sell them? Have you gotten rid of them? Because the record of the Commission will be printed at a rather early date?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. I do not want these memoirs to be published by Warren Commission.
Senator RUSSELL. Yes; I understand that.
*Mrs. OSWALD. I am now working on a book and I may wish to include these memoirs in that book. I have no objection to the publication of the material in those memoirs that have any relation to the assassination of the President, or anything that is pertinent to this particular inquiry.
Senator RUSSELL. Of course, a great deal of it is very personal. It's about your social relations when you were a young woman. Of course, you are a young woman now, but when you were even younger than you are now, and the friends that you had, and things of that nature, and this report is going to be published before too long. And that's among the evidence there, and I was trying to get some timing on your book or whatever it is you are going to publish that would utilize this material, in an effort to help you--that is the only purpose I had, to try to see that you don't lose the publicity value of the memoirs.*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I understand that and I'm certainly grateful you for it.
**Would it be possible to publish in the report only parts of my life, that pertaining to the assassination, instead of my private life?
Senator RUSSELL. I cannot answer that, and only the entire Commission could answer that, but when I read that in the testimony, I was hoping that you had found some means of commercializing on it either to the moving picture people or to the publishing world.

Mrs. Oswald.

As yet, I have not availed myself of that opportunity, sir.
Senator RUSSELL. When do you think you will publish this book?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. The publisher will possibly publish the book toward the end of December, maybe in January and even perhaps----

Mr. Gopadze.

Not the publisher. The person who writes the story is hoping to be able to finish it in the latter part of December.
Senator RUSSELL. Of course, it goes into much more detail, I'm sure, than this sketch we have, because this wouldn't be anything like a book. It would be more of a magazine article.
**Mrs. OSWALD. Would it be possible to delete it from the Commission's report?
Senator RUSSELL. I can't answer that because I'm not the whole Commission.**
Very frankly, I think the Commission would be disposed to publish all the material that they have, is my own honest view about it. The reason I am discussing it with you is to find out if you have done anything about it. Of

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