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destruction.

_ For these things: I have always
Cartier, Jewish-Canadians,

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. ‘My best jury --- the people of Canada,

Fred Rose’s statement from prison, released by Airs. Rose

A jury has found me guilty of a crime I did not commit.

I do not blame the twelve jurymen. They, like other Canadians,
machine let loose in this country since the establishment of the Royal Commission early in February.

This Commission, set up by the Government on the advice of unscrupulous individuals in high office in London
and Washington, resorted to methods unheard of in a democratic country, in order to get people to condemn them-
selves and others. I am one of the victims.

In my many years of political activity I have never done anything against the interests of

This ig not the first time that I have been the victim of a frame-up. In 1931 I was semt to jail for one year for
telling the unemployed to organize so that they and their families weuld not starve. This was not to the liking of
the privileged few. They did not want to spend money for such a trifle as the preservation of Canadian lives. —

Today, these same privileged interests see the people in many countries asserting their rights, taking over the
land, mines and factories to assure for themselves a decent existence. This not being to the liki
J polists in our own country, in Britain and the United States, the Goebbels trick is resorted to
Russia are slandered and vilified. To do that more effectively, Hitler resorted to the Reichstag fire—and now we have our “Spy Scare.
remember that the Reichstag fire lit the fuse that set off World War II. The Canadian “spy scare’ can easily become the match that sets off
World War III, an atomic war that will end all wars, for it can only end in the destruction of all humanity. :

The people of Canada, together with the peoples of the world, want peace and secur- =
ity; they want to enjoy life under decent conditions in decent homes. They want no

trust I have never betrayed.

I have faith in the people and in the good sense of all Canadians and I know that

they will carry on the good fight for peace, justice and human decency.
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LARISSA, Greece.

IN gendarmes speak of
\ Marmariani they draw a fin-
ger across their throats and
make a gruesome sound by ex
pelling the air through the sides
of their mouths.

From there, they say, savage
bandits swoop down on villages
and police posts, killmg and
looting. 7

Marmariani lies on the slope
of Mount Qssa, northeast of
Larissa, surrounded by majestic
cypress trees. I went there to-
day with an old farmer and a
note introducing me as an Amer-
ican correspondent.

Me went into Marmariani over
the rocky bed of a dry creek,
because the road is mined. A
man strolling down aé sloping
street stepped ~in front of wus
and barked a few words at the
old man, who replied with a
stream of Greek that included
the word “Americani.”

We shook hands; he read the
introduction written by my in-
terpreter who had stayed with
the jeep back in Ejlevthirion.

I shook hands all around. The
farmer explained where he had
got me, A young man in the
squatting group took the note
and read it aloud. Then - they
all grinned,

After an hour of vainly try-
ing to,find out something with
inadequate French I told the
men I had an interpreter at
Elevthirion and asked a: couple
of them to accompany me there.
They quickly and firmly refused.
it was finally agreed that I
would take a young boy to guide
me back to HMlevthirion and that
I would return with him and
my interpreter in a jeep.

Two hours later, the interpre-
ter, Dennis Koutsakos, and TI
drove back to Marmariani, the
boy showing us the way around
the mines, =

As the interpreter talked to
the group we had originally met,
other citizens of Marmariani be-
gan to gather, until there were
perhaps 100, men, women and
children, standing in a tight,
stifling circle.

As the viilagers explained it
through the interpreter, Marma-
riani and Vasone were the first
Greek towns to enter -whole-

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| The ‘ferocious bandits’
of Marmariani —

By ROBERT VERMILLION <

began to swell

heartedly into resistance against
the Germans and Italians during
the occupation.

Marmariani: stayed left when
the resistance movement was
split and at once came under
government suspicion as a hot-
bed of bandits and radicals.

They denied they were Com-
munists — merely anti-govern-
ment, anti-monarchy and anti-
Gregori Sourlas. He is, they said,
the chieftan, of a rightist band

with whom they have fought”

several nighttime battles.

All of Marmariani refused to
vote in the March 31 elections.

Marmariani was shelled that
day by armored vehicles of the
Greek army, and the president
of the town, who was appointed
by the government, voted in
Larissa where he lives.

The outer fringe of the crowd
with young,
tough-looking men, who watched
us more closely and followed the
interview more intently than the
other townspeople. I said TI
wanted to speak to the leader
of the bandits. :

One of these young men on
the edge stepped forward and
said: “Tell the American that
there are no bandits in Marma-
riani.”’

“Wei aré protesting because
we are dying every day by hun-
ger and violence brought on by
the government. We pray that
very soon the situation will be
settled and a coalition govern-
ment elected. Until that time
we must continue.”

Their attitude was friendly,
because IT am an American, but
at the same time distrustful, be-
cause nearly all Greeks believe
the United States is actively
Supporting the present govern-
ment.

We drove back from Marma-
Yiani. after. an. exchange. of
friendly farewells. The attitude
of the people along the road
had miraculously changed. They
waved at us, and motioned to
us te stop for fresh tomatoes
and grapes.

Tonight in Larissa, I told the
Greek army officer and the pre-
fect that we had spent the day
in Marmariani.

You’re lucky to be alive,’ they
Said.

fought. For this reason, my best jury, the people of
French-Canadians, and others, elected me as their spokesman
in the House of Commons in 1943 and again in 1945 with nearly double the vote. That

‘have been the victims of a vast propaganda

the Canadian people.

ng of the wealthy mono-
Communism and Soviet
» But let us

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