Shadow into substance

Armed forces such as these border

guards with their armored

cars provide the skeleton for the new armed might of West Germany—

restored under U.S. direction.

(See page 9.)

Ousted Queen’s Scout
hits at McCarthyism

LONDON

Paul Garland, 19-year-old Queen’s Scout who has been expelled

from the Scout movement because

replied to widespread press comments.

he is also a Communist, this week

‘Garland, an engineering apprentice in Bristol, was recently elected
district secretary of the West of England Young Communist League.

J. L. Milligan, Scout commissioner
for the area, then announced:

“A boy or man cannot remain a
Scout if he is a Communist.”

He added: “Paul Garland is 2
splendid young fellow; he was a
Scout of whom we were proud.”

In his reply Garland said:

“I do not. think that the Scout
movement and the Young Commun-
ist League are incompatible. I
would like to quote the rules of
our Young Communist League.

“These speak of extending “the
democratic rights of young people,
including the right to vote at 18
years and oppose all forms of dis-
crimination based on race, color,
sex, religion.’ i

“Tt feel this has something 1m
common with our fourth Scout law
which is ‘A Scout is a friend to all
and a brother to,every other Scout
no matter what country, class or
creed the other may belong.’

“The county commission has
stated that I could not fulfil my
promise of loyalty to God, Queen
-and Country.’ ©

“However, in the Young Com-
munist League, firstly, religion
is a private matter—there are
Catholics, Methodists, Protest:
anis, athiests — and secondly, !
am still a loyal subject of the
“Queen and feel that her Com-
monwealth tour is doing an ©X-
cellent job of preventing Ameri-
can infiltration into the Common-
wealth.”

Garland added: “If f am expelled
I shall want to know the full reas-
ons why. I have always been un-
_ der the impression that the Scouts
were a non-political organization.
' “J shall be gravely disappointe

-if our great Scout movement, wl
its fine traditions, becomes infected |
with McCarthyism.”

Although Garland has been a’
Scout for many years and a member
of the national committee of the
Young Communist League since
1952, the decision to expel him
came only after a local newspaper
had printed a story on his recent

election to the ‘sparetime job 0
district secretary. :

Pension Union
fights tag of
‘subversive

SEATTLE

Washington Pension Union will
fight the “subversive” label pinned
on it by U.S. Attorney General
Herbert Brownell “in every legal
manner,” Dr. C. H. Fisher, its presi-
dent, declared here last week.

The union “proposes to continue
as in the past to aid senior citizens,
the blind, the mothers and depen-
dent children, the disabled and
those receiving general assistance,”
Dr. Fisher said. The union was
first advised last April that Brown-
ell proposed to designate it as a
subversive organization under Ex-
ecutive Orders 9835 and 10450.

Dr. Fisher said the union im-
mediately protested the proposed
listing, and was, advised that if
some 50 questions dealing with
membership, finance and program
of the union were answered, a re-
quest could be made for a hearing.

“However, the attorney general
reserved the right to grant a hear-
ing or not, depending upon how
the questions were answered.”

“The Washington Pension Union
did not answer the. . . loaded
questions, ” he explained, nor did
it request a hearing, “because it
considered it had .been prejudiced
and there was no use going into a

d| hearing when those who would con- |
th| duct (it) acted as prosecutor, judge

and jury.”

Instead the union ‘sent Brownell)

a statement charging he had acted
far beyond the scope of his authori-
ty, and that his procedure “violates
due process of law,” since it would
“drastically restrict any organiza-
tion as to possible members, con-

tributors, permits for meetings, or|
f| admission into public housing pro-

jects.”

Foreign Ministers’ conference.
London Daily Worker. Gary

Daily press ran headlines on invented ‘news’ -
[Reports of ‘unrest’
East Germany false

‘Here are three reports from Berlin,
rest’ in East Germany were concocted in W
Canada and other Western countries and misrepresent Soviet proposals to the Big Four
Sam Russell and Phyllis Rosner are correspondents of the
Levy is a correspondent for Reuters, frequently described

as the British semiofficial press agency.

By SAM RUSSELL |
: BERLIN

The stories of “unrest” in Eastern
Germany now being put out by
West German propaganda factories
are a frantic attempt to stop the
growing welcome in Western Ger-
many for ‘Soviet Foreign Minister
V. M. Molotov’s proposals.

The press campaign run by Dr.
Adenauer, West German chancel-
lor, and his ‘supporters against any
and every Soviet proposal has
boomeranged. — ;

So now, in desperation, they are
circulating reports, invented in the
backrooms of West Berlin, of
“demonstrations” and “incidents”

-|in the East.

At the Am Zoo Hotel here, Dr.
Adenauer’s press chief, Eckert; has
set up a special office where daily
conferences are held with chiefs
of the U.S. Psychological Warfare
Department. 1

From these conferences have
‘gone daily directives to the news-

papers in Western Germany to at-
tack Molotov’s proposals in terms
more violent than even the Ameri-
cans dare use at their press brief-
ings.

.

By PHYLLIS ROSNER
* BERLIN
Reports. of alleged “unrest” in
the German factories, which have
been put out over the weekend by
West German propaganda agencies,
are completely without foundation.
I was assured at the Stalin Elec-
trical Works, on the outskirts of
Berlin, that such reports are fals
from A to Z. ; )
The plant employs 10,000 work-
ers. More than 1,000 of them came
from West Berlin, and many had a
good laugh when I told them of the
reports about their factory.

It was alleged that “agitators”
trying to get support for the pro-
posals put forward by Molotov for
free all-German elections had been
thrown out of the factory. :

The Stalin Electrical Works was
one of the 33 factories handed over
on January 1 this year to the Ger-
man Democratic Republic by the
Soviet Union. ’

Recalling this, one of the work-
ers said: “Do you think that now
we have got this factory we are
going to hand it over to the West
German bosses?

“These propaganda lies are just
another attempt by Dr. Adenauer
and his gang to create trouble now
that they see their plans to extend
the activities of the monopolists
and militarists to East Germany
have failed.” cee

Workers at other plants where
“unrest” had been reported made
similar comments.

Soviet Army tests atomic guns"

By RALPH PARKER

| moscow| 4°

It is reliably reported that at European part
(Early this month the U.S. Army | was fired last May at the Nevada
Europe of a| proving ground from a 280mm.
{second six-gun battery of atomic| gun.)

recent Soviet army manoeuvres
atomic shellfiring artillery of vari-
ous calibres was used.

were held

manoeuvres
of the USSR.

announced dispatch to

ording to these sources the|cannon to supplement that sent
‘ in the|last fall.

(The first American atomic shell

all confirming the charge that reports of “un
est Berlin to mislead public opinion in Britain,

By GARY LEVY
HALLE, East Germany
The East German government al-
lowed me to take a car ride 150
miles deep into* this country to
check for myself on Western re-
ports of unrest, disturbances and
extraordinary security measures.
At my own suggestion I was driv-
en to two spots described as main
trouble areas in these reports—
the Leuna chemical works and the
city of Halle.
The only firm conclusions I could
draw from my visit were these:
® If there have been disturb-
ances and there is unrest at
Leuna or Halle | saw not the
slightest sign of them.
@ If extraordinary measures
have been taken against the
eventuality of riots and sabotage,
1 saw no sign of them.
The largest number of troops I
saw was on the road from Halle
to Merseburg, where I passed two

“Soviet Army lorries with eight sol-

diers. None carried arms. They
were trying to get the engine of
one of the lorries going.

I passed miles of open railway
track and several bridges without
catching sight of any guards.

At the Leuna factory gates,
when I arived> a broad-faced police-
woman with glowing red hair and
a pistol in a hip holster was doing
guard duty.

In a subsequent tour of the re-
finery I did not see another police-
man.

I picked on the blacksmiths’ shop
workers and asked all the officials

for an informal chat with the
workers and asked all the officials
to stay behind at the door.

They remained out of sight while
I walked over to a group at the
far end of the huge hall, in which
at least 100 men were working.

I told them. who I was and ex-
plained I had come to investigate
reports that Communist party offi-
cials had wanted the workers to
pass resolutions supporting Soviet
plans for Germany, that the work-
ers had refused to endorse this and
counter-proposed a resolution de-
manding immediate free all-German
elections.

Not one man in that corner of
the shop would confirm the report.
They all said they approved the
Soviet proposal and could not un-
derstand why the West would not
have it.

I asked some men in the draft-
ing office if they had signed volun-

tarily. This brought a laugh. I
said their works paper had admitted

there were still declared opponents

of the Communist regime in the
factory. Had they signed too?

No, they had not, I was told.
Attendance at the political meet-
ings was voluntary, just like the
signatures.

Hans Winkler, 25, shop commit-
tee chairman, said the irreconcil-
able enemies of the regime “no
longer dare argue openly because
the commonly known facts have
taken ‘away their arguments.”

Driving slowly through Halle,
stopping to look at shop windows,
I saw nothing to suggest a tense
atmosphere. Life looked normal.

\

pour into Berlin in the next
week or two, ready for the im-
pending meeting of the Big
Four Foreign Ministers.

I should like to advise those
readers who have to rely on
_the big business press for their
information to brace them-
selves for a new flood of silly

- stories about East Berlin and
East Germany. ...

Much more serious than such
journalistic irresponsibility, of

HE twelfth session of the
Berlin conference of for-
eign ministers was held amid
reports of unrest and demon-
strations in Russian-occupied
East Germany because of Rus-
sia’s refusal at the conference
to agree to the Western plan
of free elections. _
’ ‘The demonstrations, occur-
ring in an atmosphere almost

when Soviet troops quelled

ge e

The prediction .. .
UNDREDS of foreign cor-| course, are the attempts which
respondents are likely to!

are sure to be made by West
German and West Berlin
agencies to disrupt the talks.

Readers with good memories
will recall that when the for-
eign ministers met in Paris in
May, 1949, American-financed
trade union groups immediate-
ly staged the elevated railway
strike in an attempt to cause
ploodshed and break up the
talks.

—John Peet in Democratic
German Report,

... soon proved true

as tense as that of last June|-

December 25, 1953.

anti-Communist East German
riots, occurred in several in-
dustrial centres.

In addition, Russian troops
armed with machine guns and
Soviet tanks were sighted in
East Berlin.

Scores of arrests were re-
ported. Ba

—International News Service
dispatch in Vancouver

Daily Province,

February 6, 1954.

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