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ri _ MOSCOW
THE release of the falsely charg-
. €d doctors and arrest of those
ay former ministry of state
: fae Tesponsible for, their de-
'g 10n Is interpreted here as a
f1 of the new government’s
ength,
Fxoneration of. 15 Moscow doc-
Bi accused of murdering or
ie 8 to eliminate Soviet lead-
tien their release was an-
igh by the ministry of in-
affairs,
lay aan’®, 28 made a particu-
Matic €ep impression on diplo-
Gif Observers here of those

ties whic
Reutral. h have remained

“An act o A
of the bo f true statesmanship

WW on Idest character,” was
The € diplomat described it.
lic ee has deepened pub-
“ial . Viction that the minister-
; lated eomzation which was
and put before Stalin’s death
has ha Into effect by Malenkov
“Thus si greater efficiency. —
chap "5 € investigation into the
Seen. as against the doctors is
 Betia’s stemming directly from
: *ppointment as minister
19r.

thirties’ Beria who, in the late
light si took steps to bring to
at justice. grave miscarriages
Deputy. ny announced that ex-
ty Ry, Minister of State Securi- +
min had been arrested.

Pou
FLLowing is the abridged |

ex:
Pearcy °f an editorial which
th rt ae Pravda, organ of
Viet y ™Munist Party of the So-
a

hion, on April 6.

Hf : aus it happen that a pro-
‘Which yV© ase, the victims of
Soviet UtMed out to be honest
Tepres Citizens and outstanding
Was gy ctives of Soviet science,
ts Be tad within the pre-
Stata oi the Soviet Ministry of
Stang rity, called upon to
the guard over the interests of
i State? *
aye: aPPened first of all be-
© chiefs of the investi-
Were nop eh -of this ministry
Up to their tasks.

hi
ftom th, detached themselves
They for People, from the party.
Servants “Ct that they were the
of the people whose

~ Wa;
Sovieg ny guard over

@

Seeunigy mer Minister of State
egy hae’ displayed pol-
oe Ness and gullibility.
eh iy Under the influence of
Duty yweturers as the former
Westign inister and head of the
Who eee Branch, Ryumin,
“Wise, and nally conducted the
est, <"" Who is now under ar-

‘Yumi
YY of a acted as a hidden ene-
Niteag State, of our people.
H denon, 2iming his efforts
: the, sane the real enemies
ae ee People, the. gen-
ae ; -: _and diversionary
tev “min took the road of
ad of crins. Sovernment, the
Enon} "minal. adventure.
ig a Work, the honorable duty
iqration + Of the state admin- .
a d the 1S responsibility
Umin Paty.and the people,
© mini we Other officials
Stave) Hee of state security
aoated Soviet laws in

Dro
¢ ce ‘eae
“hina ce achieving. their

ingpic’ We
to inating SO far as to fake

ing eyj
tras. © CVidence and
§ a. , and dare
coset itt? Inviolable rights
titution “°OS: Written in our

mearCompnt :
int : sof ission of medical ex-
Bho Arges in connection with
Ctorg a8ainst the group of
~~ Short of their tasks.

BL

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MTC UT ee OIL UL DL iD EE nb UD EL AL Lh eda a ba alt

. Case of the
Soviet doctors

TRUER ERB TEL Pe

It was also announced that the
Order of Lenin awarded to Dr.
L. F. Timashuk, a woman physi-
cian who had been described in
January as unmasking the ac-
cused doctors had been cancelled
as “incorrect” by the Supreme
Soviet Presidium.

The announcement on the re-
lease of the doctors said:

“The Ministry of Internal Af-
fairs of the USSR has made a
thorough investigation of the
materials of the preliminary in-
vestigation and other data in the

“ease of the group of physicians

accused of wrecking, espionage,
and other activities against Jead-
ers of the Soviet state.

They gave incorrect conclu-
sions on the methods of treat-
ment applied at the time to
Shcherbakov and Zhdanox.

Instead of analysing the his-
tory of the illness and other mat-
erials objectively and with scien-
tific conscientiousness, this com-
mission fell under the influence
of documents fabricated by the
investigation unit. :

They supported by their auth-
ority the slanderous and falsified
charges against a number of pro-
minent medical men.

But it must be recorded in
this connection that the investi-
gators removed from the evi-
dence .submitted to the experts
some relevant aspects of the
treatment applied which prove

that the methods of treatment:

were correct.

The Soviet people learned
with a feeling of satisfaction
that the charges brought against
a whole group of eminent rep-
resentatives of Soviet medicine

were. found completely untrue, '

that this was a vile calumny of
honest and respected workers of
our state.

Only people who have lost
their Soviet principles and hu-
man worth could resort to un-
lawful arrests of Soviet citizens,
outstanding exponents of Soviet
medicine, to a plain falsification
of investigation, to criminal vi-
olations of their civic duty.

Contemptible. adventurers of
the Ryumin. type,
with this case fabricated by
them, to kindle in Soviet society,
which is welded in moral and
political unity and the ideas of
proletarian internationalism, a
feeling of national hostility pro-
foundly alien to socialist ideology.

For these provocative purposes
they did not stop at shameless
slander of Soviet people.

A careful check has proved,
for example, that an honest pub-
lic man, People’s Artist of the
USSR Mikhoels, was slandered
in this way.

°
As is seen from the announce-
ment of the Soviet Ministry of
Internal Affairs, organs of the
former ministry of state securl-

attempted, .

By RALPH
PARKER

Br et Pe

ty ‘grossly violated Soviet legal-
ity.

They allowed the exercise of
arbitrary rule and abuse of
power.

Such criminal activities could"

not remain for long unexposed
and unpunished, as the Soviet
government stands guard over
the rights of our country.

It safeguards these rights care-
fully and punishes severely, ir-
respective of their personal

“standing, those who allow arbi-

trary acts.

¢ . ‘
The Communist party and So-

viet government have always ex-
pected, and are expecting, that
the work of all our institutions,
of the whole state machinery,
should be under the vigilant
control of ruling organs and of

‘the Whole Soviet society.

Now when the Soviet people
deeply feel and understand the
meaning of the victory of social-
ism in our country we must be
particularly vigilant and particu-
larly exacting as regards the ob-
servance of Soviet socialist leg-
ality.

By boldly denouncing short-
comings in the state machinery,
including acts of arbitrary rule
and lawlessness perpetrated by
some workers of the state ad-
ministration, by correcting these
shortcomings in a résolute and
drastic manner,. the Soviet gov-
ernment openly and directly
speaks about them to the people.

This testifies to the great
strength of the Soviet state, of
the socialist regime.

The source of this strength
springs from the fact that our
government is closely and indis-
solubly hound to the people, that
it relies on popular support for
all its work, that°it pursues con-
sistently and resolutely a policy
which corresponds to the vital
interests of the people.

‘The eountry of socialism, full
of invincible might and creative
forces, confidently marches . on
the road to communism. The

CT tt Et tn BURRESS EEN ENE EERE REL

“As a result of verification it
has been established that Pro-
fessors M. S. Vovsi, V. N. Vino-
gradov, M. V. Kogan, P. B. Kor-
gan, P. I. Yegorov,.A. I. Feldman,
Y. G. Etinger, V. K. Vasilenko,
A. M. Grinstein, V. F. Zelenin,
B. S. Preobrazhensky, N. A. Pop-

ova, V. V. Zakussov, N. A. Shere-
shevsky, and Docter G. I.Mayorov
implicated in this case were
wrongfully arrested by the form-
er Ministry of State Security of
the USSR without any legal
grounds.

“The verification has shown
that the charges against the
above-mentioned persons were

exploiting classes were liquida-
ted in the Soviet Union long ago.

That is why foreign reaction-
ary forces cannot find in our
country any measure of popular
support in their attempts to con-
duct seditidus undermining acti-
vities against the Soviet state.

But the Soviet people know
that as long as the capitalist
encirclement exists, attempts to
send spies and diversionists into
our midst will continue to be
made.

There will also be attempts to
make use for anti-Soviet pur-
poses of individual human splin-
ters, conveyors of bourgeois
ideology and degenerates.

We must always keep our
“powder dry against these overt
and covert enemies of the peo-
ple, enemies of the Soviet state.

The party teaches us to be al-
ways vigilant. In the Constitution
of the ~ USSR are written the
rights of citizens of the Soviet
socialist state. ,

Article 127 of the constitution
guarantees Soviet citizens the
inviolability of the person. No

false and the documen
on which the investigation work-
ers based themselves were un-
founded.

“It has been established that
the testimony of the arrested
men allegedly confirming the
charges made against them was
obtained by workers of the in-
vestigating section of the former
ministry of state security through
the use of methods of investiga-
tion which are inadmissible and
most strictly forbidden by the
Soviet law. ‘
,“On the basis’ of the finding
of the investigation commission
specifically set up by the Minis-
try of «Internal Affairs of the
USSR to verify this, the arrested
doctors—M. S. Vovsi, V. N. Vino-
gradov, P. B. Kogan; P. I. Yeg-
orov, A. I. Feldman, V. H. Vasi-
lenko, A: M. Grinstein, V. F.
Zelenin, B. S. Preobrazhensky,
N. A. Popova, V. V. Zakussov, N.
A. Shereshevsky, G. L. Mayorov
and the others implicated in this
case have been fully cleared of*
the charges of wrecking, terror-
ist and espionage activities pre-
ferred against them and, in con-

formity with article four, seetion °

five, of the code of criminal pro-
cedure, have been released from
custody.

“The persons guilty of the im-
proper conduct of the investiga-
tion have been arrested and are
held criminally responsible.”

'‘Despicable adventurers’ forged evidence |

one can be detained without a
court decision or an order of the
prosecutor. *

Socialist legality, the defense
of rights of Soviet citizens, writ-
ten in the Soviet constitution, is
the most important foundation
-for the further development and
strengthening of the Soviet state.

No one will be allowed to vio-
late’ Soviet laws.

Every worker, every collective
farmer, every member of the So-
viet intelligentsia can work safe-
ly and without fear in the know-
ledge that his civie rights are
reliably guarded under Soviet
socialist legality.

A citizen of the great Soviet
state can rest assured that his
rights, guaranteed by the Soviet
constitution, will be  sacredly
observed and defended by the
Soviet government.

This is one of the most im-
portant conditions of the further
and closer rallying of the peoples
of the USSR around their Soviet
government, for the further con-
solidation of our country’s power
and of the steady growth of the
Soviet Union’s international
prestige.

Viet Nam land reform

Viet Nam Democratic Re-
public is strengthening its
position in the big areas freed

from the French by pushing

ahead with land reform.

Plans for this year’s land re-
form campaign were adopted
recently ata joint session of the
Standing Committee of the Viet
Nam National Assembly and the
National Committee of the Lien,
Viet Front (the national front
organisation). S

Reports of the session, held at
the end of February, which have
just reached Canada, make it
clear that with the carrying out
of this program the liberated'
areas will be _ strengthened
against any French or American
plans of reconquest and also
that the Democratic Republic
will be in a still stronger posi-
tion to strike blows against the
French.

The joint session decided that
in 1953 the mobilisation of.the
peasants in the struggle against
reactionary and feudal forces
would be the main task.

The policy of rent reduction
would be fully enforced and the
landlords would not only be re-
quired to reduce rents but also
‘pay back excess rent and usury
interest which they had charged
in the past.

Land belonging to French col-
onialists and to traitors would
be handed over permanently to
poor and landless peasants in-
stead of only provisionally as
Hitherto.

Communal lands are also to be -

distributed among peasants and
land belonging to absent land-
owners will pass into national
use.

The new agrarian program
was first put forward by the Lao-
dong (Labor) party.

It has sinee been endorsed by
the People’s Army, the peasants’
organisations, the General Con-
federation of Labor, the women’s
and youth organizations, the Viet
Nam Democratic party, the So-
cialist party, and by Father Vu
on behalf of the Catholics of Viet
Nam.

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