_ By DEREK KARTUN ' LONDON! : ae medical conspiracy uncover- ae 4 the USSR reveals a pattern Toreign-inspired murder that is hot new. At least four outstanding Soviet t erga nicl as ae naltties were murdered in a tag ar way by doctors before the Lae = ; foe these cases the killings ees Carried out on the orders of a «is intelligence services. Gor Victims, included Maxim hie 4 the world-renowned writer, Dittets V. Kuibyshev, one of the “uistanding Soviet leaders. ‘ pate details of the manner in gee ney were killed’ by deliber- oo armful _medical treatment a Pcted in the Moscow trea- ie Mal of March 2-13, 1938. ve poet trial Bukharin, Rykov, } we 3 and other high-level agents ik €tound guilty of spying, wreck- NS and other crimes. Rite the accused was Dr. L. G. Yoon). Personal friend both of ~~ *80da and Gorky. Mestioned by Andrei Vyshin- i then chief public prosecutor, ae Save a detailed account of € had helped to kill Gorky on: ~*80da’s orders, in 3 S 5 = : his evidence Levin declared: oe —_*.(Gorky) was already a very : | What 1938 trials revealed — \Gorky was-victim \Of medical murder sick man. His lungs were in a bad state. In addition, the changes in the lungs had a terrible effect on the activity of the heart. ... “Now in the winter of 1935 he was in the Crimea, and there I spoke to Kryuchkov (another doctor in the conspiracy). We came to an understanding as to measures harm- ful to Gorky.” Levin then told how Gorky was encouraged to take long walks and to warm himself before a bonfire, both harmful to his health. It was arranged that Gorky should. return to Moscow, where he had a greater chance of contract- ing influenza. When Yagoda heard that there was ’flu in Gorky’s Moscow home, he sent word to Levin to get Gorky back. This was done, and within a ‘few days Gorky was ill. “We made use of medicines which would be harmful to him,” said Levin. ‘We did not administer any spec- ial medicines which would make people wonder why they were being applied. “We used only the medicines which are usually prescribed in such cases, but administered them in very big doses. In the given case, they changed into their oppesite.” SS Dailies twist reports Nazi plot dian d. rest in VW linked | policies (By giving the story a typical cold war propaganda twist, Cana- aily papers have completely distorted the significance of the est Germany of seven former high-ranking Nazis. British _ auiited Press reported, for instance, that the seven were charged with folting, “probably with help from East German, Reds or even with Scow itself,” to overthrow the West German government. fact, the British Foreign Ofice’s original announcement made charge, On the contrary, in popular and even semi-official esponsibility for resurgence of Nazism was placed on US. - Actual 20 such Circles - Policy.) Shocked ‘LONDON | Overy é and alarmed by the dis- Many. & Nazi plot in West Ger- n 4 Ys Many British Labor MP’s are Te aaa to be pressing for with- see British ratification of the Germany, to rearm Western Peal by) : Le Paris the semi-official paper ; ae Placed the blame for the ‘Doi ce Of such ‘plots on U.S. ae its 3 mutha jePealing to reactionary and Many.» aa cadres to rearm Ger- States he paper said, “the United, Along puethose who follow them Storin ie road are gradually re- Within. he Social and mental system on which National Socialism: Breed power.” . S ‘Mnounced b Be: e th ish For- ' Office last By: British 1 Dy. arrested were: i WERNER NAUMANN, : Goebbae State secretary in Dr. Ministry of propaganda Nd nomi ec ; Moceeg mated in Hitler’s will to Goebbels as propaganda rite ; a D _ SOR. GUSTAV SCHEEL, for- time ees student leader, one ihateg te eiter of Salzburg and nom- Of mj '0 Hitler’s will for the post 3 Se of culture. ape ZIMMERMANN, a for- oF SS. brigadefuehrer and of- Tati € S.S. economic and ad- On department connected -‘Mtio, . ministration of concent- : 4 DRS. “ - HEINRICH HASELMEY- Unich p {S80ciated with Hitler’s su a Putsch of 1923 and leader tence of the Nazi conspiracy: In of the Nazi Students’ League in Hamburg. HERR HEINZ SIEPEN, for- mer local Nazi leader and now part-owner of the Punktal steel works at Solingen. DR. KARL SCHARPING, for- mer official of the radio depart- ment of the Nazi propaganda min- istry. ‘ i KARL KAUFMANN, former gauleiter of Hamburg, who joined the Nazi party in 1921 and was interned from 1945 to 1948. . Many British Labor MPs said that their opposition to German rearmament had been fully justi- fied and they ‘declared their inten- tion of seeking a Parliamentary La- bor party meeting to discuss the implications of the Nazi revival. In Western Germany alarm was equally great among the _ Social Democrats, many of whom had been named for arrest by the recently unearthed fascist German Youth League, formed with official US encouragement. Attacking the Adenauer govern- ment for its leniency to Nazi ele- ments, the party board of the Social Democratic party said: noe “That the government is not tackling the infiltration of neo- fascists and former Nazis into leading positions of our Republic was shown already by its handl- ing. of the affair of the German Youth League”’—which had been banned by some state govern- ments, but not by the federal government. ‘ Chief rabbi of Moscow nails lies By RALPH PARKER MOSCOW Anti-Semitism has been rooted out in the Soviet Union by law and by the will of the people, the chief rabbi of Moscow, Schlieffer, declar- ed in an interview here last week. “Tt is inconceivable that questions of race or religion could play any part in acusations made against anyone in our country,” he said. “There can be no question of dis- crimonation in trials or accusations against prisoners,” the chief rabbi said when told of the charges of anti-Semitism that were being made abroad in connection with the ar- rest of the nine Soviet doctors. “It is not only because any discrimination against national- ities—or aS you say minorities— is severely frowned on by law, but because such _ intolerances are quite foreign to our Soviet way of life,” he continued. “But let me say plainly that any- body who is guilty of plotting against our country must pay the penalty, irrespective of race or re- ligion.” 3 The chief rabbi went on to speak with pride of the prominent part played by Jews in all spheres of public life in the Soviet Union. The reactions of the Soviet peo- ple to the arrest of the nine doctors have fully confirmed the chief rab- bi’s statement. In the sense of shocked horror ‘mingled with anger with’ which the news of the arrests was heard, the target for anger was not the Jews. It was the inspirers in the U.S. and British intelligence services of the crimes for which the doctors were arrested. Zionism, which the Soviet people are now being told to regard with. the utmost suspicion, is not being associated with religion or race. It is being presented as a poli- tical manifestation alien to the in- terests of those Jews who are liv- ing decent, loyal lives in the countries of their birth. It would no more enter the peo- ple’s minds to associate their Jewish compatriots with Zionism than it would for them to look on their Roman Catholics as supporters of the Vatican’s political aims. The truth of the references by the chief rabbi to the part the Jews are playing in national life is self- evident. The Jews of. Birobidjan have helped to make that autonomous re- public a model so far as educational standards and highly mechanised farming is concerned, and it is there that Yiddish culture has its material base. « : The Jews, along with other na- tionalities, have a share in the party and the government, and their talents in cultural and in- dustrial life are rewarded by Stalin Prizes. highest organs of the Communist _ U.S., British intelligence behind medical conspiracy to murder Soviet leaders MOSCOW The medical conspiracy against Soviet leaders revealed last week has shown the world the absolutely unprincipled and barbarous nature of the cold war waged by.the Western powers. Leading Soviet newspapers carried angry editorials denouncing the British and U.S. intelligence services and other bodies which organized the medical murder of Andrei Zhdanov in 1948, and of General Shcherbakov in 1945, and tried to murder other Soviet military leaders. Five of the nine doctors who have been arrested and confessed their guilt, got their orders from. “Joint’—the American Joint Distribution Committee. Under cover of organizing relief for poor European Jéws, this body has acted for years as a cloak for U.S. espionage agents. It was active in the Soviet Union until 1938. An official Tass message said that a diversionary group of Soviet doctors which, had tried to shorten the lives of Soviet leaders had been unmasked. The nine arrested men were Professors M. S. Vovsi, V. N. Vinogradov, M. B. Kogan, P. I. Yegorov, A, Feldman, I. G. Etinger, A. M. Grinstein, G. Mayorov, and B. B. Kogan. “It was established with the help of documents, inquiries, statements by medical experts and confessions by those guilty that the criminals were secret enemies of the people. They sabotaged the treatment of the sick, damag- ing their health,” said Tass. “It was established during the inquiries that the members of the terrorist group had used their situ- ation as doctors of medicine and abused the trust of the patients. They were damaging intentionally and criminally the health of those patients. “They intentionally ignored the data of an impartial examination of the patients and gave wrong diagnoses not depicting truly the character of the illness. “Then, by improper treatment they let them die.” Tass then said that the doctors had confessed that they had taken advantage of the illness of A. A. Zhdanov, announced a wrong diag: nosis of his illness and kept the symptoms of his heart disease secret. ANDRIE ZHDANOV His life shortened “The criminals also shortened the life of A. S. Shcherbakov (Colonel- \ General Alexander Shcherbakoy, former head of the political admin- istration of the Red Army who died of heart. disease in 1945.) “They put him in such a dan- gerous situation that death follow- ed,” said Tass. “The first attempts of the crim- inals were directed at the military leaders of the country. They tried to eliminate them and thus to weaken the defense of the country. “They tried to eliminate Mar- shal A. M. Vassilevsky, Marshall I. S. Koniev, Marshal L. R. Govo- ‘lov, General S. M. Shtemenko Admiral G. I. Levchenko gad others. “The criminal plans of the wrong- doers failed owing to their arrest. They could not reach their goal. “Tt was established that those medical killers who became monsters of the human race, who trampled \the holy banner of science, who dishonored science, were paid agents of a foreign intelligence service. “Most members of the terrorist group were connected with an in- ternational Jewish bourgeois nation- 198 7 U.S. congressman admitted ‘terror would play part’ The U.S. Mutual Security Act, referred to in Soviet press com- ment on the medical conspiracy, was passed in October 1951. It allocates $100 million to fin- ance persons living in or leaving _ Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria or Albania “either for inclusion in the sub-units of armed support ing ‘organizations of the North Atlantic Pact or for other pur poses.” Representative Charles Kirsten, who played a leading part in get- ting the Act adopted in Congress, declared frankly that it was in- tended “to afford practical assist- ance to people behind the Iron Curtain who are working to eventually overthrow the Com- munist regimes.” And he added: “To say that terror would not play any part in the liberation movement of East- ern Europe means being utterly ignorant of what the liberation movement is.” alist organization — ‘Joint’ Joint Distribution Committee.) It said the JDC was used by the U.S. Intelligence service officially to render material help to Jews in other countries, “but in reality to conduct espionage, terrorism and other underground activity in a number of countries and in the So- viet Union; this activity directed by USS. intelligence. : Pravda, the Communist party newspaper, commented: “These killers, hiding under the masks of scientists and doctors, were in the pay of U.S. intelligence. “Under the orders and directives of the U.S. intelligence these pro- fessional spies and terrorists from ‘Joint’ led their. undermining activi- ties on Soviet territory, Helped by the scattered Jewish bourgeois na- tionalists.” ‘ Pravda then said of Britain and the U.S.: “They know that the goal of world domination cannot be reached by peaceful methods, so they are feverishly preparing for a new world war. “They are sending to the Peo- ple’s Democratic countries and the USSR all kinds of agents in order to achieve that in which the Nazis failed. “They are trying to establish their fifth column in ihe USSR. . .” The newspaper warned against “self complacency” and called for more vigilance among the Soviet people. 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