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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.”

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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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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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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“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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