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gevernment’s action in bringing to Canada
men who served in General Anders’
anti-government army, is seen in its
international significance when placed against this

Section of the speech made by A. Y. Vyshinsky, Soviet

delegate,

in committee of the General

Assembly of the

United Nations at New York on November 6.
The Poles now being brought to Canada have been
selected by a special Canadian committee from camps which,

as Vyshinsky shows, are
of the Rackiewiczs, Becks

government.”

Vyshinsky quotes A. J. Cummings,

“under the control of followers
and Anders,” and in which “con-
tinuous propaganda is being carried on

against the Polish

internationally

known correspondent of the London News-Chronicle, that

the Poles themselves

“are confident we are maintaining them

for future use in a war against Russia.”

HERE remains one more category of persons who
should not, in our opinion, receive aid from the Inter-

national Refugee Organization.

These are persons

who are members of military units and para-military for-
mations not yet disbanded, which had been in action on the
Side of Hitlerite Germany and her allies during the war,

and which are up to now

enjoying the hospitality and

protection of the Allied military authorities.

In this connection mention
Should be made, for instance, of
the Ragozhin Officers’ Corps,
which was formed by the Ger-

mans in 1941 an@ made up of
Russian White Guards. ‘This
eorps, which was and still is
made up of some 10,000 White
bandits, in 1943 took part in
action against the Yugoslav
army, as part of the German

forces.

On May 12, 1945, the Rago-
zhin Corps capitulated to the
British military command, laid
down itS arms in the region of
Ljubljana and was lated trans-
ferred to the neighborhood of
KlJagenfurt, the whole structure
of the corps, with its staffs and
Services, being left intact. What

is more, the corps, although to -

a large extent deprived of arms,
was remanned by the inclusion
of persons from WNorthern Bu-
kovina, Bessarabia and partly of
Soviet prisoners of war.

The RKagozhin White Guard
Corps continues to possess im-
portance as one' of the main
centers of propaganda hostile to
the Soviet Unicon among Soviet

displaced persons and refugees.
Fascist White Guard magazines
and bulletins are being issued
by the corps in the camp of
Kellerberg. Propaganda against
repatriation is widely organized.
Its aim is to retain by all pos-
sible means beyond the frontiers
of the USSR the members of
this corps as an integral mili-
tary formation without loss of
the military organization of the
corps personnel.

This propaganda is intended,
however, to extend not only to
members of the corps but in
general to Soviet nationals,

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among displaced persons who

fall within eyeshot of this so-_

called Colonel Ragozhin and his
underlings. This propaganda is
being conducted by various of-
ficial and semi-official organiza-
tions and committees who are
acting with the knowledge of
the Allied occupation authori-
ties.

In confirmation, I will name
these organizations: “The Rus-
sian Emigrant Committee” head-

ed by Ragozhin, “The Baltic
IN On - repatriation Committee,”
“The WNonrepatriation Union”

headed by the White emigrant
Mitkevich, “The Ukrainian Com-
mittee of Nonrepatriation’” head-
ed by Simchenko, who used to
be the burgomeister of Khar-
kov under the Germans and
who left with them during the
retreat from the Ukraine, “The
Independent Cossack Group” un-
der the leadership of Captain
Backshinsky, former chief of the
propaganda section of a German
punitive SS brigade, and a num-
ber of other committees.

All these gentlemen are now
active in or near camps of re-
fugees and displaced persons,
wherever they feel most com-
fortable and free to conduct
without restraint their disgust-
ing criminal activities aimed
against the Soviet Union. All
these people, without exception,
were agents of the German Ges-
tapo, of the German Intelligence,
hirelings of the German general
or other staffs, members of this
or that military formation of
the Hitlerite army, who dis-
honored themselves by action
against those who fought for
the liberation of their country,
for Our Common cause.

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But THIS is not all. At the
present time the Ragozhin
Corps has beeome _ the center
around which all these so-called
committees are grouping them-
Selves and negotiating an agree-
ment to form a bloc the princi-
pal aim of which, before the
eyes of everybody, including the
British, American and French
military authorities, they openly
dared to express in the follow-
ing words: “liquidation of the
Soviet Union as a Sreat power.’
And this before the eyes of
€verybody and in bright day-
light, not only with the knowl-
edge but under the direct spon-
Sorship of the military authori-
ties which, it would Seem, should
have liquidated these harmful
organizations and should have
imprisoned their leaders as a
first measure~ in order to hang
them as a second measure.
This ‘program’ which can only
be called insane and crazy, is
being. epenely circulated wunder
the eyes of the Allied occupa-
tion authorities in the western
in Austria.
All demands by Soviet represen-
tatives in the Allied Council for
Austria that an end be put to
Such activities hostile to the
USSR are being rejected by the
Allied authorities, who are
ing their protection to
activity. -
After the end of the war with
Germany, White Guards and the
other German hirelings, agents
of the Hitlerite intelligence, who
worked for this intelligence at
the price of their people’s blood,
took up advantageous positions
in certain bodies of the Allied
Occupation authorities, continu-
ing their provocative work in
the same spirit as during the
war.

giv-

this

No wonder that out of 39,700
refugees and displaced persons
of Soviet nationality only 39, or
a thousandth part, were repat-
tiated in September of this year.

But this is not all. Similar ac-
tivities to those which are being
Carried out among Soviet refu_-
gees and prisoners of war by
these self-appointed committees,
these bandit organizations which
Sprang up and continue to srow
in the western zones of occupa-
tion in Germany and Austria
like mushrooms after the rain,

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are taking

Slay and Polish refugees are
concentrated, among whom the
Same provocative work is being:

Carried out by military forma-
tions of Chetniks and Ustashi
from among the officers of the
former Royal Yugoslav army as
well as by Anders”-Polish emi-
Srant army.

All these military and para-
military formations, not to men-
tion Anders’ divisions, represent
a readily available source of
mercenary, troops. The * mem-
bers of these formations, their
leaders and foreign sponsors,
are still hoping that the day will
dawn when these military cadres
will come in handy, when they
will be put into operation and
the military machine of which
they are already a part will be
put in motion for the execution
of the aggressive designs of this
or that foreign state.

The voices warning the foreign
patrons of these mercenaries
against the dangerous political
fame that is still being played
Should, therefore, be heeded.

In this connection one cannot
fail to notice, for instance, an
article by Cummings in the
(London) News Chronicle which
states that the first really use—
ful job that needs doing is’ the
disarmament and disbanding of
Anders’ Polish Army, an army
which is hoping that it may one
day be used against the new
Poland and against Russia.

The Poles themselves, writes
Cummings, “are confident that
we are maintaining them for

future use in a war against
Russia.”
“This army,’ he continues,

“represents a big problem. Nevy-
ertheless, the British govern-
ment bears the responsinility
for removing this problem with
the minimum loss of time. The
political atmosphere,” he added,
“will remain poisoneg as long
as this state of affairs continues.
It cannot be ignored indefin-
itely.””

The Soviet delegation consid-
ers it necessary that all the
above-mentioned mibtary and
para-military formations be im-
mediately and actually disband-
ed, and that those who want to
return to their native land

place where Yaicso—

Should be accorded material
assistance by the International
Organization.
S

JT Is necessary to dwell upon

this question more thorough-
ly, bearing in mind that these
military ang para-military for-
mations are extremely  wide-
spread in camps for refugees,
which have in fact become mili-
tary camps in the true sense of
the word.

I consider it necessary and
possible to speak of this at 2
meeting of the Third Commit-
tee dealing with the setting up
of this at a meeting of the
Third Committee Gealing with
the setting up of the Interna-
tional Refugee Organization, be-
cause these are the persons who
claim assistance from the Inter-
national Organization and te 4
certain extent are already re-
ceiving such assistance. It is no
secret that refugee camps, situ-
ated in the western zones of
Germany, Austria and certain
other countries of Western HBur-
Ope, areé springboards and cen-
ters for the formation of mili-
tary reserves of hirelings, which
constitute an organized military
force in the hands of this or
that foreign power. These camps
fully retain their Military char-
acter and “military formations—
companies, battalions, military.
police, regiments, Staffs, miltary
tribunals, military prisons.

Here are a few facts.

The New York Limes in its
issue cof June 9, 1946, publishes
an Associateg Press dispatch
from Germany, which with ref-
erence to a statement of the
British authorities, states that
detachments of the former Roy-
al Yugoslav army stationed in
the neighborhood are smuggling ~

arms designated for elements
Whose activities are directed
against the Yugoslav govern—

ment, in other words the eamps

are becoming centers from which
arms

are being smuggled to
those bandits who intend to
Overthrow the lawful govern—

ment of Yugoslavia by force.
The paper further states that,
as the British point out, the
underground route for the sup-
ply of arms and ammunition
Passes into Yugoslavia through
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1946