remedy
“earried on by those people.

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Germany and Austria. This
mevement is directed py forty
generals of the Royal Yugoslav
Army, whose headquarters was
located in a camp for displaced
persons at Mondel.

Consequently, it turns cut that

camps of alleged refugees are
the headquarters of a rel

bel army
Which, aithough underground,
operates against the lawtul

Yugoslav severnment quite of
ficially and legally.

The same paper, in its issue
of July 18, 1946, stated that in
the city of Verde (Germany),
fascist elements Staged a dem-
onstrative funeral service for
General Mikhailovic. Camp of-
Gicers and some of the Soldiers
ef the former Royal
army who took part
neral service were

Yugoslav
in this fu-
in uniform,

“some of them in the uniform of

mew foreign police detachments
in which, according to the pa-
per, some of the Yugoslay op-
positionists are enrolling, ie.,
fascist troopers of former Kine
Peter. The paper adds that
“the Yugoslav camp at Verde is
organized on military lines”
Mark these words: this is seri-
Ous and highly important infor-
mation.

There are a number of
camps filled with former
agents from among the “royal
officers” of Yugoslavia. Such is
the Camp of Eboli in Italy head-
ed by the notorious quisling
Micdrach Dasyanovic; camp St.
Johan at Pongau, Austria, head-
€d by another quisling, Cedomir
Petrovie; such is the camp at
Darmstadt, Germany, where a
large group of former Yugoslav
prisoners of war is forcibly pre-
vented by the gendarmerie from
returning to their homeland.

such
fascist

Seme of the former prisoners
of war who are in fact interned
and who honestly fought against
Hitierite troops for the common
cause of the United Nations
Succeed in escaping from these
camps and bringing news about
the status of refugees and dis-
placed persons denied all rights,
about the brutal club-law and
terror prevailing in those camps,
about continuous outrages,  cor-
poral punishment and other bru-
tal reépressions against all those
who voice a desire to return to
their “homeland.

e
T IS important to note that
refugees in these Camps are

in a position of complete isola-
tion, since representatives of the
Wugoslay government are not
allowed to visit the camps, al-
though at the same time num-
erous instigators against the
Wugoslay government are freely
admitted and even invited te
these camps, where they carry
on their treach@rous work.

A simijar situation prevails in
the camps where Polish citizens
are being held. I should like to
remind you of the statement
made by the Polish delegate in
the Preparatory Commission that
in the camps under the control
of followers of the Rackiewiczs,
Becks and Anders, continuous
propaganda is being carried on
against. the Polish government,
and, as the Polish delegate stat
ed, a situation has arisen which
ealls for urgent measures to
the destructive work

“These camps,” the statement
Of this delegate reads, ccopta
many war criminals and fifth
columnists who assisted. the
German occupationists and who
are now working 2gainst the
Polish state.”

The
cities of Augsburg,

the
Neu

situated in
Fussen,

camps

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Ulme, ete., which hola many
Soviet citizens who at one time
were forcibly driven by the Ger-
Mans—te workin Hitlerite Ger-
meny as well as people who
Were forcibly mobilizea into the
Hitlerite army, also contain
many war criminals and sabo-
teurs, forming the principal
body of the fascist organizations
in the camps.

In these Camps, basing their
activities On the aboyve-men-
ened Sreups of adherents, the
various organizations of a fas-
cist type which operate under
different names Such as “Ra-
das,” “Ukrainian Committees,”
“Lithuanian Committees,” “Bal-
tic Committees,” ete. are carry-

ing on with impunity their
work of discouraging repatria-
tion. :

A committee operating in the
city of Bayreuth and headed by
the notorious Ukrainian fascist
Lipetsky may serve as an ex-
ample. This Committee bears
the name “Rada of the Ukrain-—
lan Sector of the Camp for the
Deported.” Mention might also
be made of the “Ukrainian CGom-
mittee’ at Salzburg which is
Knewn for the fact that it spe-
Cialized in fabrication of forged
documents regarding the state-
lessness of Soviet citizens whose
names were being fraudulently
changed, fictitious places of
residence indicated, etc:; the
“Byelorussian Committee” at
Regensburg, which carries on
propaganda for the dissociation
of Byelorussia from the USSR
and also manufactures forged
documents; “The Central Coun-
cil of Lithuanian Emigrants”
which is headed by the notori-
eus adventurer Professor Kund-
zin, who is the ‘publisher of
about 20 newspapers in large
cities of western Germany, with
the permission, of course, of the
appropriate miltary authorities;
the “Lithuanian National Com-
mittee” headed by the infamous
General Plekhavichus and Gen-
eral Kubeliukas, who acted as
the Lithuanian Prime Minister
during the German occupation;
the “Lithuanian Prime Minister
during the German occupation;
the “Lithuanian Committee” at
Zelinstadt headed by Colonel
Svilas, who at the time of Ger-
man eccupation of WLithuania
acted as the director of the
Police Department.

A so-called Society of Foreign-
ers, headed by a certain Lithu-
anian, Klimovichis, who was
registered as a volunteer in the
SS troops of the Hitlerite army
and as a member of the Ges-

tapo, is active in Arnsberg. A
fascist “Russian. Emigrants
Committee is active in Munich

in the American zone, etc.

I have named those camps
and the people who head them;
TI have given certain data which
characterizes their political
makeup. They are traitors, ene-
mies to our cause, hangmen of
their people; they are German
agents whose place is not in
camps under the wing and pro-

tection of any international or-

ganization with humanitarian

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whose place is not

purposes,
even in jail but on a scattold,
on a gallows, for they are stains
€d with the blood of millions
upon millions of tortured inno-
cent people who fell victims of

Fiitlerite barbarism, of Hitlerite

crimes perpetrated by these peo-

ple.

And now by an jncomprehen-
sible turn of fate these crimin-—
als are found to ccupy positions
that are almost honorary, in the
guard placed around our coun-

trymen who happen to be

' ocratic

-ler’s

abroad against their will,
want to return home to their
families, but cannot because
their way is barred by those not

yet buried MHitlerite hangmen
who are Carrying on their
bloody, criminal, brutal deeds
@gainst imnecent people.

e

{ pee state of affairs in camps

is a natural consequence of
the presence among the camp
administrative authorities of
people hostile to the cause of
democracy and to the new dem-
order establisheq after
the end of the Second World

War in a number of countries,
whose citizens are in refugee
camps.

This is confirmed not only by
the information in statements
published by various officials,
but even by official documents
of the bodies of UNRRA.

This is also supported by a
number of other facts mentioned
above, which show that the refu-
See camps are actually in the
hands of the fascist and White

Guard organizations, under the
leadership of such full-fledged
reactionaries as Andrei Melnik

(alias “Consul”), notorious agent
of the German Intelligence serv-
ice; as Stepan Bandera, ataman
of the fascist gang, who special-
ized in organizing Jewish po-
groms; as Levitsky, Doroshen-
ko, Borovets (alias “Taras Bul-
ba”), war criminals and agents
of the Gestapo; as Professor
Kubshtovich and Kirmanovich,
organizers of the SS _ division
“G@alitchina;” as banderovites
Cwho are more fittingly called
bandits in Russian) Stetsko or
Omelechenko, who “was Himm-
henchman and “hangman.

In 1943 he headed punitive ex-
peditions against the Ukrainian
and Byelorussian guerrillas in
the Zhitomir district, the Rov-
no district, and in a number of
other districts of the Ukraine
as well as in Byelorussia. And
this very same Q@Qmelchenko is
today safe and sound, gaining
weight at the expense of inter-
national organizations with hu-
manitarian aims and, in par-
ticular, to our regret at the ex-
pense of UNRRA.

There can be no doubt that
such frank fascist activities by
all the mentioned military and
terroristic organizations and
groups in camps could be car-
ried on only due to the obvious
toleration on the part of the ad-
ministrative autherities of these
camps,

These being the situation in
refugee camps, there is nothing
unexpected in the fact that the
refugees and displaced persons
who are forced to stay in these
camps find themselves deprived
ef all rights and placed in an
exertmely difficult position.

There. are facts of truly crim-
inal treatment of Soviet citizens
among the refugees, not to men-
tion the fact that, as regards
refugee Soviet citzens from the
Lithuanian, Estonian and lLat-—
vian Republics, repeated efforts
are being made to put them in
the position of statesless per-
sons. Ten of thousands of these
refugees are subjected to un-
fair and brutal treatment.

Fascist bandits holding se-
cure positions in these camps,
enjoying the support of the ad-
ministration and feeling com-
plete immunity for any crimes
the victims of which are refu-
gee Soviet citizens, are gctually
staging man-hunts against So-
yiet people who voice a desire
to return home.

In a number of camps Soviet
citizens are subjected to severe

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repressions for the mere expres-
Sion of desire to return to the
Soviet Union. In a number of
cases things go so far that So-
viet people caught in the ter-
rible ‘erime’ of expressing a de-

Sire to return home are Simply ©

expelled from the camps with
2 warning that the administra-
lion is not responsible for their
fate and their lives. Is this not
incitement to the murder of
Soviet people?

This is
everybody’s

before
this en-

happening
eyes. All

“courages rowydism and bandit-

ism against honest people loyal
te their country, who cannot
reconsile themselves to such an
utrageous state of affars and
seek to return home from this
slough of club-law and crime.

| pee great evil hampering the
return of refugees and’ dis-
placed persons to their home-
land is the brutal and system-
atic pressure exercised upon the
refugees in the form of propa-
danda, which is being conduct-
ed under direct protection and
direct assistance on the part of
camp authorities. In reality, un-
der cover of such propaganda,
psychological and
physical pressure is being put
on people who happen to be
abroad, far from home, without
velatives, without support, with-
out friends, and in difficult liv-
ing ¢onditions in a strange land.

The Soviet delegation has re-
peatedly raised this question, in-
sisting that the camps for refu-
gees and displaced persons
should be closed to any propa-
ganda discouraging repatriation
or directed against the interests
of the United Nations: Organiza-
tion or its individual members.
Effective measures against prop-
aganda of this nature would con-
Siderably improve the state of
affairs and provide for a speedy
return of the refugees to their
homeland, which according to the
draft Constitution; submitted
for consideration by the Gener-
al Assembly, is the main task
of the International Refugee Or-
sanization.

But the Soviet delegation is
meeting with opposition in this
matter. I would like to recall
that the Soviet Delegation had
already met with this opposition
at the General Assembly in Lon-
don in February, 1946, when it
urged that an end be put to
this misuse of the freedom of
speech and press, misuse of this
so-called freedom of propaganda,
whieh in fact constituted an
incitement to crime.

As I have said, our proposal
will probably put forth the same
argument, such as the argu-
ment that this is a question
ef the freedom of the press,
freedom of speech and that a
ban on the discouragement of
repatriation is an infringement
of freedom and democracy and
€ven of basic human rights.

But do threats, intimidation,
bullying, often followed Dy
physical violence, have anything
in common with freedom? Is it
possible for any reasonable per-
son to think of calling the use
of the press for incitement to
crime, freedom of the press?

Do you not think that an
appeal to renounce one’s native
country, to refuse to participate
together with one’s people in the
reconstruction of the country, is
a@ crime and a most serious
erime at that? To justify such
erimes and to request immunity
for such criminals behind a
sereen of loud phrases about
freedom of speech and free-
dom of propaganda means toa
take the road of encouraging

-access to camps.

such crimes,
instigator
erimes.

thus becoming an
and inspirer of such

Words are being spoken about
freedom and democracy in an
attenipt to prove that prevention
of propaganda discouraging re-
patriation of refugees is incon-
Sistent with the principles of
freedom and democracy. It is
forgotten that propaganda "of
this nature is not simply an ab-
Stract exposition of certain
theoretical principles, which in.
fact do not have any practical
Significance.

No, the propaganda whieh is
now under discussion is a ser-
mon, a call, for practical action
and criminal actions at that; it
is a false and fraudulent mis-
representation of facts, it is
deceit and blackmail depending
on the credulity of people who
are often politically inexperi-
enced and credulous at that.

To prevent harmful * propa-
ganda under such eircum-
stances means to protect the

interests of people who other-
wise would become victims of
a foul crime.

A veritable struggle is in pro-
gress around repatriation, a
Struggle which is often stubborn
and fierce, but which is always
unequal Since it is those who
are against repatriation who
have all the opportunities for
such unbridled action as they
May wish to undertake under
the protection of the camp ad-
ministration, while the others,
those who are in favor of re-
turning home, are not allowed
te conduct such propaganda.

People who would lilke to come
forward with such propaganda
are be€ing beaten and terrorized,
put in solitary confinement and
imprisoned, publicly, flogged,
and all this under the flag of
an international organization
with humanitarian aims.

As for the representatives of
the governments concerned, who
are interested in explaining to
these deceived people, these
people, these thousands and tens
of thousands of deceived, black-
maileqd people who are being
subjected to such heavy psycho-
logical pressure by all the means
at the disposal of so-called com-=
mittees, subcommittees, military
and para-military formations,,
ets, they are simply not given
And this is
ealled freedom of propaganda!
This is called freedom sueech!

Under these circumstances and
before such facts there is no
room for harangues about un-
rstricted freedom of will, for
harangues which in reality
serve as a screen for the sup-
port of those who seek their
sinister political aims by co-
ercion, threats and violence.
Therefore this is not a ques-
tion of restricting the freedom
of propaganda, since it is not
propaganda, but a form of psy-

chological pressure on people
who have been deceived and
placed in difficult conditions,

who have been deprived of their
families and means of existence.
Such propaganda represents 2
threat to the peace and secur-
ity of nations. It is a question
of putting a stop toa such prop-
aganda in refugee camps, in
those camps which will bear the
Sign of our organization and
for which we will all be held
responsible since this MInterna-
tional Organization, if it is oar-
ganized and set up, will act
under the sponsorship and aus-
pices of the United Nations.
That is why the Soviet dele-
gation is insisting on measures
being taken to end: in refugee
camps propaganda hostile to
repatriation. a.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1946

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