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Alan Winnington, whose dispatches from Korea have exposed

the POW “horror” stories manufactured by American newsmen, is
shown (above) surrounded by American and British prisoners of war
in a North Korean camp during the 1952 “inter-camp Olympics”

staged by the prisoners.

British POW’s returning to England have

denounced the Korean war as “stupid” and “useless.”

Canadians say Yanks
maltreated Koreans

Three Canadian POW’s in Ko-
rea have confirmed in interviews
with two newspapermen that al-
most Belsen-like torture methods
-were used by U.S. troops on Koje
Island prison compounds to “per-
,Suade” Korean and Chinese sold-
_lers to oppose repatriation. Their
stories confirm in terrible detail
the observation made by William
Stevenson, Toronto Star Weekly
reporter who wrote in that paper
on November 22, 1952, that “phy-
sical threats — often carried
out” — had resulted in a “un-
animous” vote in one compound
he visited with British Minister
of State Selwyn Lloyd.

Alan Winnington, London
Daily Worker correspondent and
Wilfred Burchett, Paris L‘’Hu-
manite correspondent in Korea,
have devoted a chapter to their
interviews with the Canadians
in a new book Koje Unscreened,
a copy of which has just reach-
ed the Pacific Tribune office.
The prisoners interviewed were
Corporal Jollymore, Lance-Corp-
oral Bell and Private Allan —
all of whom were recently listed

officially as POW’s by another
Canadian released during the re-
cent sick and wounded exchange.

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‘of Greenglass’

A new appeal for clemency for the Rosenbergs, now held under death sentence

in Sing Sing Jail, has been sent to President Eisenhower.

Announcing this here this week, the U.S. Rosenberg Defense Committee said the
appeal has been made on the basis of new information “casting graver doubts on the test!”
nony of their chief accusers, David and Ruth Greenglass.”’

The U.S. Supreme Court is expecte

NEW YORK

d to hand down its decision on the Rosenberg

appeal for a new trial any one of four Mondays, May 18, May 25, June 1 or June 8, the

date on which it adjourns for the summer.
to U.S. observers will be May 18.

Likely date according

A statement of the Canadian Committee to Save Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg issued this week announced that new sensational
evidence had been uncovered in the case, reflecting on the Green-

‘glasses’ testimony:

It was their testimony that brought the guilty verdict and
later the death sentence to the Rosenbergs.

The committee’s statement follows in paft:

Two documents are available which contradict statements

made in court by the Greenglasses.

The first, in David Green-

glass’ handwriting, purports to be a recapitulation of what he told
the FBI, the second being a typewritten document which summar-
izes the role of Ruth Greenglass and which appears from external

evidence to be from the office
of O. John Rogge, Greenglass’
attorney.

The handwritten document has
been analyzed by a foremost
handwritting expert (Elizabeth
McCarthy, Boston, Mass.) and
has been identified as a product
own hand. In
addition the evidence reproduc-
ed in at least four leading French
newspapers, has brought no
charge of forgery from the U.S.
government.

Together they add further sup-
port to the Rosenberg’s defense
charge of frameup. (Recently a
table was discovered which had
figured largely in the trial and
which is proved to have been
bought by Julius Rosenberg at
Macy’s department store — “not
given to him by the Russians,”
as Greenglass testified.)

A comparison of the docu-
ments and the trial record shows
that additions and changes were
made in the interval between the
statements and the Greenglasses’
testimony in court — changes
which implicated Greenglass’ sis-
ter, Ethel Rosenberg and her hus-
band Julius and which would
“save the skins” of the Green-
glasses.

@ No mention is made of
Ethel Rosenberg in the pre-trial
statement, though repeatedly
mentioned in the trial testimony
of her brother.

@ In his letter, David Green-
glass said he let the FBI “remem-
ber for him” things he himself
could not remember—the iden-
tity of the person who sent con-
fessed agent Harry Gold to en-
gage him in espionage. At the
trial he said it was Julius Rosen-
berg.

eg Greenglass claimed his
wife talked over with him the
giving of “information” to Julius
Rosenberg when she met David
Greenglass in New Mexico in
November 1944. Mrs. Green-
glass’ pre-trial statement reveals
she did not get to New Mexico
until four months later, March
1945.

_© Also, she claims Rosenberg
discussed the atom bomb with
her before she went to New
Mexico March 1945, but in her
statement it comes out it was
only after Hiroshima (July 1946)
she became aware of the atom
bomb. :

These and many other details
of the two documents are being
circulated widely throughout
Canada by the Committee to Save
the Rosenbergs to throw further
light on this case which has
aroused public sentiment the
world over.

Now appeals are being urged

drive upped

to President Eisenhower to grant
executive clemency to Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg to save them
from death in the electric chair,
that justice may still be done.
For information and literature
on the latest developments in
the Rosenberg case, write to The
National Committee. To Save
The -Rosenbergs, Room 24, 356
Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ont.

CCW health

insurance

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Extension of the National
Health Insurance campaign un-
til September has been announc-
ed here by the national execu-
time of the Congress of Cana-
dian Women, to provide the op-
portunity for enlisting the sup-
port of many thousands more
Canadians and to call on all
candidates seeking federal office
to.pledge their support for in-
stituting National Health Insur-
ance. There has been an en-
thusiastic response on the part
of the public to the CCW peti-
tion which calls on the Canadian
government to implement the
plan.

In centres across Canada the
campaign is expressed in a var-
iety of forms,’'— in St. Cather-
ines the CCW is using a booth
at the market for collecting sig-
natures on the petition. At the
Lakehead, the CCW chapter is
issuing 500 postcards for health
insurance supporters. there to
send the federal government.

Continued

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