Tried to suppress his book

_ Author quits gov’t job —
ever rearming of Nazis

By PETER FRYER

LONDON

Forced to. quit government service because he refuses to suppress a book he
has written on German war crimes, Lord Russell of Liverpool is to carry his fight
against German rearmament into the House of Lords. He told me last week: “I shall
now be able to take part in House of Lords proceedings which, as.a public servant, I
have not been able to do for 36 years.”’

A question about the backstage
efforts to get Lord Russell to with-
draw his book, which could hardly
have come at a more embarrassing
time for the government, was sub-
mitted for the Commons order
paper by Harold Davies, Labor
MP for Leek.

If accepted, it cannot, of course,
be answered until parliament re-
assembles on October 19.

Davies asks the prime minister
“whether he will order an inquiry
into the circumstances in which
Lord Russell of Liverpool, Assist-
ant Judge Advocate General, re-
signed his position; after refusing
to withdraw his book, The Scourge
of the Swastika, containing a fac-
tual account of activities under the
Nazi regime.”

. Davies also asks whether the
government “approves the action
taken by the Lord Chancellor (Lord
Simonds) in this matter.”

Lord Russell said that publica-
tion of his book was objected to
on the grounds that it would give

. support to the opinions of those
who are most strongly critical: of
the policy of giving Germany an
opportunity, by rearmament or
otherwise, of exerting an influence
in world affairs.

“The Lord Chancellor informed
me that he considered that the
publication of such a book was
incompatible with my holding judi-
cial office.

“Before starting to write the
book I had received permission
from the Lord Chancellor’s office
to write any book which was sole-
ly factual and historical.

“As I felt strongly that the gov-
ernment’s attempt to suppress the
publication of this book was an
unwarranted interference with the
right of free speech, I ‘resigned
from office in order that the book
might be duly published.”

The Scourge of the Swastika
(published by Gassell’s in Eng-
land, British Book Service in Can-
ada) is not an indictment of-the
German people, although many of
them share responsibility for the
Nazi crimes; it is an indictment of
Naziism. :

- “It is only when one recalls

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what was done in Germany he-
tween 1933 and 1939,” Lord Rus-
sell writes, “that one can see in
their true perspective the crimes

committed during the war in oc-
cupied territories.” __

Lord Russell’s will be a power-
ful voice added to those who are
opposing giving guns to the Ger-
mans. :

For four years after the war he
was Deputy Judge Advocate Gen-
eral of the Rhine, and during that
time there were more than 300
trials in British military courts, in-
volving over 1,000 Nazi war crim-
inals. :

In 1951 he and his wife, while
motoring in Westphalia, were at-
tacked. by an angry mob of Ger-
mans. Shouting “Death to the Brit-
ish? and “British swine,’ the
crowd tried to drag them from
their car and set fire to it.

Lord Russell said afterwards: “T
regard this attack as the result of
recent concession to the Ger-
'mans.” The German police “be-
haved disgracefully and left us to
our fate.” é

‘Crusade for jobs’
appeal to convention

REGINA

An appeal for unity around “a
great national crusade for full em-
ployment in peace” was made to
the Trades and Labor Congress
convention here last week by five
major independent unions—Mine-
Mill, United Electrical, Fur and
Leather, Canadian Textile Council
and Canadian Garment.

Noting that unemployment is
likely to get. much worse in the
coming months, the appeal de-
clares: “Is it inevitable that we
would have another crisis?”

“We do not believe so. Present
unemployment is not only a crime
against the people of our country;
it is unnecessary and could have
been avoided.”

Responsibility for the present
situation lies with the federal gov-
ernment “which has tied our coun-
try economically, politically and
militarily to the chariot wheels of
U.S. imperialism,” reads the ap-
peal.

The unity appeal then notes
that “the great trade union move-
ment of our country is in a posi-
tion to force the government to
adopt different policies. .. . What
stands in the way . . . are the con-
tinued divisions in our ranks.”

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Nazis not
real Nazis

says consul

MONTREAL

“Many ministers and ambassad-
ors and leading officials (of the
West German Republic) are’ for-
mer members of the Nazi party.”
This is the statement Adolf Reif-
ferscheidt, West’ German Consul-
General in Montreal, made to the
Montreal Star last week in an at-
tempt to disprove the accusation
made by Dr. Otto John, former

security chief of Western Ger-

many, that the West German gov-
ernment. is now under Nazi con-

trol.

To the Consul-General, member-
ship in the Nazi party did not mean
a thing because “they were mem-
bers in name only,” they joined
“only to protect their livelihood
for themselves and their families.”

Reifferscheidt has iust returned

from a six-week visit to Western
Germany.

Reifferscheidt’s defense that for-

mer members ‘of the Nazi party
are not “real Nazis,’ but joined

“in name only” is as cynical as the
argument Nazi war criminals used
“We

in defending their crimes:
were only following orders.”

LABOR
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Charges that the Bakery Sales
men’s Union, an affiliate of the
AFL Teamsters’ Union, is et
to raid the striking Bakery Wort
ers Union have been made by
ville Braaten of the Vancouver
Pulp and Sulphite Workers Union.
Braaten’s charge came at %%
Regina convention of the Trade j
and Labor Congress during @§
cussion of a no-raiding agreeme
between the Congress and the riva
Canadian Congress of Labor.
Meanwhile, support for the bake
ery workers was still mounting 4
the dispute with the major V2
couver and Nanaimo firms endé
it eighth week. Many local unions,
both AFL and CCL, have ender
the appeal by the Bakery Wort
ers Union and contribution to WU —
ion funds to help augment strike
relief, are still rolling in.
Mel Kemmis, leader of the st
ing union, said this week that the
bakery salesmen were keopitt
their threatened action very muC
a secret. He held. out little hope
of an immediate end of the @*
pute. ;
* kk
Cannery, net and reduction W®
ers in B.C.’s fishing industry have
won a 10-cent hourly wage 500
and the 40-hour week from té
year’s negotiations between the
Fisheries Association represen’ ©
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The victory came after the shor®™
workers had voted overwhelmilé
ly to strike and had twice appl!
for a government strike vote. _
In another section of the ind¥®
try, fresh fish and cold storae®
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