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emans have murdered

two million people in —

m occupied areas, and
i murders were planned
@ the invasion of Rus-
anched in June, 1941.
jcis were revealed. by
Radio recently in the
i the State Extraordin-
fission investigating the
mmission found secret
jocuments in a former
'Q. in Kiev, which may
ene of the next Nazi
gals’ trial, it was re-
terday.

shose indicted by the
' are Major-General
‘Hindenburg, son of the
ent, and General Field-
‘on Hindenburg, com-
£ all prisoner-of-war
ihe east.

| German women to be
5 War criminals have
named by the commis-

are Gestapo Prison
ident Emma Mandl
ie Wardess Dickmann.
ndl was superintendent
Yomen’s Concentration
Zavensbrueck and later
‘of another concentra-
near Minsk Frau Dick
in charge of a Gestapo
son in Eastern Poland.

id Polish civilian wo-
dr perished because of
at by the German

commenting on the
ieyelations, stated:

erciless vengeance will
‘ose who gave the in-
as well as those who

them out. No enemy
to clean his bloody
i succeed. aie

time in history has a
orked out such com-
‘machinery for the de-
if human beings.” -

|

ation Plot

ive investigation by the
Extraordinary Commis-
dselosed that Nazi of-
mpted to exterminate
~ population and Red
by systematic spread-
shus during February
of this year.

{ they would soon be
m their positions, the
ed that the oncoming
jen would be infec-
‘people they liberated.
PS consisted of open
di off with barbed wire:
were forced to lie on
ground, in filth and
yphus sufferers already

0, from the village of
iid the State Commis-
t near the barbed wire,
re dug and filled with
Vater. There were many
i bodies in the ditches.
Ms gave us no drinking
i we were obliged to
© from these ditches.”
victims, reported the
i were
’ied areas in Polessie,
mel and other regions
Russia. People freed
= concentration camps
ng forcibly sent to con-

_famps on the fifth,
ighth” and ninth days
acting typhus:

German agent, F. Ras-
disclosed“ after being
mer by the Red Army:
t di, 1944 Oberlieuten-
‘Chief of the 308th Re-
se group, told me that

be sent to a camp for -

here of the 40,000 pris-
© 7,000 were suffering
iS =

ed the anti-typhus in-
aid the Nazi spy. “My

' prisons hundreds of .

conscripted for -

rounded up-

orders were to go to the camp
west of Zarichi and mingle with
the people incognito. I was to
find out what the Red Army units
would do with the civilians after
reaching the camp, whether the
women and children would be
sent away, what they would do
with the sick. After this, I was
to return and report my findings
to the Germans,’”related*tite spy.

The State Extraordinary Com-
mission has indicted for the un-
civilized spread of typhus:

The Nazi government; the
German High Command; the
commander of the Ninth Army;
General Vise, commander of
the 4ist Tank Corps; Lieut.-
‘General Wiedman, commander
of the Sixth Infantry Division;
Lieut-General Grossman. -

War Orphans

To provide for maintenance,
education and upbringing of
children of Red Army men, guer-
rillas and of Soviet people who
perished at the hands of the Ger-
man invaders, nine Suvoroy mili-
tary schools, 23 special yocational
schools, 118 special children’s
homes, 26 special infants’ homes
-and 36 centers for
orphans have been set up in the
Soviet Union. :

A, total of 4.588 youngsters have
been placed in the schools of
Suvorov, 9,000 in vocation schools
and 15,526 in children’s and in-
fants’ homes,

SPAIN

False Premise

Although differing completely
in spirit and purpose, the recent
Anglo-American agreement with
Franco Spain, taken together with
the Soviet-Czechoslovak military
sunderstanding, form highlights of
the pre-invasion diplomatic of-
fensive. : 2

The agreement with Spain is
one aspect of the renewed pres-
sure upon Sweden and Turkey to
withhold shipments of vital sup-
plies to Germany. But whereas
Sweden and Turkey may be con-
sidered neutrals, Gen. Franco’s
regime does not fall in the same
category. In this lies the trouble
with the new agreement.

Franco pledged himself to re-
duce shipments of wolfram, used
in hardening steel, from 1,100 tous
a month (the 1943 rate) to 20
tons a month in the last half of
this year. He will close the Axis
consulates at Tangiers, oust desig-
nated German agents from Spain,
arbitrate the fate of Italian ves-
sels which took refuge in the
Balearics and withdraw all troops
from the Soviet front.

In return. Franco is permitted
to load oil in Caribbean ports, on
top of his right to buy packaged

_petroleum products in this coun-

try. The United States which em-
bargoed shipments of Caribbean
oil to Franco on February i, held
out for complete cessation of wolf-
Tam exports but settled for less
under British pressure.

Qn the face of it, the agree-
-ment seems to favor the Allies;
in reality it is based on the
false premise that Franco is
really a neutral. The truth is
that Franco was, is and always
will be a fascist, closely tied to
Hitler. While some British
circles insist that he is not, be-
cause they wish to help him
outlive the defeat of Germany
and the wrath of the Spanish
people, the United States should
have a different calculation
entirely.

The entire defense policy of
this hemisphere is today jeopar-
dized by the rise of pro-Hitler,
anti-American movements in
South America, emanating from
Argentina, directly inspired and
abetted by Franco Spain.

Franco’s Falange is the inter-
mediary for Germany in all the
machinations of the Argentine
dictatorship.

placing of -

The pact with Franco is there-
fore not only a contradiction to
Hulls speech of April 9, pledging
a democratic Europe completely
purged of fascism, but it is a
hollow, transitory thing that en-
dangers our vital interests in the
hemisphere and will not, in any
case, outlast the defeat of Hitler.

The entrance of two outstanding
pro-fascists in the Argentine cab-
inet, General Orlando Peluffo as
foreign minister, and Dr. Alberto
Baldrich, as minister of justice
and information, is séen as a di-
rect consequence of the Allied-

Franco agreement. - Emboldened
by the appeasement of Spain,
Argentine appoints rabid —pro-
Franeo, pro-American figures to

_ key cabinet posts.

On the other side of Europe,
and in severe contrast with the
agreement with Franco, comes
the pact between the Soviet and
Czechoslovakian governments,
governing the rule of liberated
Czechoslovakian territories.

The pact provides that Czech
and Slovak troops will accompany
the Red Army into Czechoslo-
vakia. The zone of active opera-
tions will be under Soviet muli-
tary control, with liaison officials
from the Czech government.

As soon as the front moves for-
ward, the Czechoslovakian gov-

ernment takes over complete con-—

trol. In case of crimes committed
against Soviet soldiers, the Czech
courts will have complete juris-
diction. -

This agreement, symptomatic of
cordial Gzech and Slovak rela-
tions with the USSR, precludes
any AMG for Czechoslovakia.
The treaty, ratified by the Unit-
ed States and Eritain, also
serves as a model for similar
agreements of the western pow-
ers with the Norwegian, Dutch,
and Belgian governments-in-
exile.

Something approaching the same
procedure is also already being
developed between the Allies and
the French Committee of Na-
fional Liberation. Thus practical
forms of United Nations collabor-
ation are helping to settle the
immediate issues hinging on the
invasion.

Only the Polish government-in-
exile, through its premier, Stanis-
jlaus Mikolajeyzk, took exception
to those developments. In a speech
celebrating the Polish Constitu-

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tried to undermine inter-Allied
unity with unfounded charges

that the great powers were settl-
ing Europe’s fate by themselves.
The example of the Soviet-Czech
pact, and its counterparts, gave
him the lie. ;

INDIA

Resistance Pledged

APAN’S invasion of India’s
J eastern frontier has aroused
a new wave of patriotic resent-
ment against fascism throughout
the country, despite the fact that
many national leaders are still in
jail. Leaders at liberty, particu-
larly in the Assam war theater,

—

have once again reiterated In-
dia’s determination to resist fas-
cism.

Jyoti. Basu, secretary of the
Bengal and Assam Railway
Workers Union, is now touring
Assam, exhorting workers to

stand at their posts. Respond-
ing to the call railway workers
have pledged that under all cir-
cumstances they will maintain
railway service and keep sup-
plies moving to the Allied
armies, particularly to Lieut.
Gen. Joseph Stilwell’s forces in
North Burma.

‘It is time for us to unite, for
there is no way out today except

through all of us working for self

defense and self-sufficiency,” de-
elared Gopinath Bardoloi, Indian
National Congress leader and ex-
Premier of Assam.

“The fact that the government
has kept our leaders in detention
should not make us indifferent or
forgetful of our duty at this
critical juncture.”

In the state of Manipur there is
a strong people’s movement led
by the Proja Mandal (League of
Subject People). This body has
openly declared its hatred of fas-
eism, and although its leader,
Trawat Singh, has been exiled, he
has just issued: this stirring call
to his people: :

“Today our beloyed Manipur is
desecrated by the brutal Japan-
ese fascists. The beautiful plains
of Imphal are smeared by our
own brothers and sisters because,
together with the mighty Allied
armies, they won’t let the Japan-
ese break through.

“To all Manipur my message is:
Tet not a single soul help the
Japanese in any Wway—not even
with a glass of water.

“Ruthiessly we have to crush
the enemy that comes to destroy
our peaceful homes and shackle
us with the chains of fascist
slavery.”

TURKEY

Anti-Soviet Center

“THe Polish emigre government's
embassy in Turkey has be-
come the main international
eenter of anti-Soviet propaganda,
according to these facts reported
by foreign  mnewspapermen in

Turkey.

@ Anti-Soviet stories are concoct-
ed by the Istanbul branch of
the Polish Telegraphic Agency
(PAT). Sheltered by the em-
bassy’s diplomatic immunity, it
Maintains direct contact with
Goebbels’ agencies in Istanbul.

@ Many PAT-“reports” are cirecu-
lated simultaneously by Ger-
man fascist agencies in Tur-
key, Europe Press and Trans-
Continent Press.

@ They appear extensively in the
pro-Nazi newspapers, Tuerkis-
che Post and Bejogiu. :

@ Stories in German bulletins re-
ferring to “Stockholm” or
“Stockholm circles’ are pub-
lished by PAT citing “london”
or “London circles.”

© Books and pamphlets published

by the anti-Soviet Polish clique-

in Istanbul achieve a spurious

authenticity by using a British

address..

For example, “The Polish-Soviet
Frontier,” a virulent attack on the
Soviet Union by Stanislaw Grab-
ski, was marked “London” on its
cover, but carried an Istanbul
print shop label on its last page.

Anton Plutinski’s We Are 115
Million, a book with fascist pre-
tensions which argues for a great-
er Poland to include the Soviet
Baltic Republics; was widely cir-
culated in Turkey by government-
in-exile circles.

The propaganda center is head-
ed by pro-fascist Alexander Mir-
ski, who previously operated in
Egypt and Syria. A principal
organizer of the anti-Soviet cam-
Paign is press-attache, A. Werner,
former trusted personal secretary
to Polish ex-Foreign Minister
Joseph Beck.

Short.
Jabs |

by OV Bill.
Sacrifice
prwets ownership of utilities
received another boost in
Vancouver a few days ago, a
boost of the kind generally re-
ferred to as “an Irishman’s raise.”
The high mogul of the B.C. Col-
lectrie, W. G. Murrin, asks us to
make further sacrifices to those
his concern has already imposed
on us. Private ownership has
funetioned so well that the people
of the Lower Mainland may have
to return to the coal oil lamps of
their pioneer forefathers,

At least once before the alleged
superiority of private ownership
Over public ownership caused the
residents of Vancouver to be
placed on rationed light, trans-
portation and power. The same
sacrifices confront them again and
for the same reason®—the profit
motive as the objective rather
than “service” to the people as
a whole,

The present war has taught us
at least one thing, that no army
Can win wars if it does not pro-
vide reserves to meet ali con-
tingencies: Battle after battle has

proved it. Battles must be won
if wars are to be won.

_ fhe same yardstick must be
applied to industry and transpor-
tation. We have seen the truth
of this made plain in our street:
car system here in Vancouver and
in Victoria. This is so apparent
that it needs no comment. Now
we are asked to make more sac-
rifices. We are to live in the dark
as the caveman did, to suffer
further restrictions of street car
Service, to forego the use of the
gadgets—washing machines, irons,
toasters and other things that
lighten the burdens of life for the
industrial worker and the house-
wite. And this, not because there
is a danger of bombing raids or

other war risk, but because the —

B.C. Collectrie cannot provide the
juice. This is the end product
of private ownership.

Compared with the statements
of representatives of publicly
owned bodies and industries, Mur-
rin’s appeal sounds like a cracked
bell. His squawk about a shortage
of water is an alibi. The shortage
lies in the provision of reserve
supplies to meet the situation
caused by the dry winter and
spring, a shortage due entirely
to the acquisitiveness of stock
ana bondholders.

Dr. Cleveland, chairman of the
Vancouver District Water Board,
is the representative of a publicly
owned and operated body. He
says there is no shortage of water
in its dams and the people of
Vancouver need not be alarmed.
The Greater Vancouver Water
Board is organized for service.

Hon. C. D. Howe, minister of
munitions and supply, also asserts
that government owned concerns
—27T crown companies—have proyv-
ed themselves equal to privately
Owned companies. He has the
figures to prove it.

We will undoubtedly have to
make these needlessly ineurred
sacrifices to win- the war, but do
not let us forget, when the world
is being rebuilt, those who make
such failures today must not be
allowed to cut the new pattern
to the shape of the old.