The Bonn government of West Germany, under the leader:
ship of U.S. imperialism, is stepping up armaments expan-
sion. Top photo shows the West German people in Ulm
protesting against conscription. Bottom photo shows
soldiers drawing inflatable boats during a large:scale war
manoeuvre of atomic warfare staged by the Bundeswehr.

Franco doubles jail —
term after Ike visit —

LONDON—Franco’s Supreme Military Court, which
last month retried a 31-year-old former Spanish diplomat,
has increased his original four-year sentence to eight
years, Madrid sources said this week. _

This was the trial which

Franco police prevented Brit- |. Eisenhower’s reception in’
ish MP Bob Edwards from |Spain was “a bolony -circus,”

attending as an observer.- Edwards said.' “This little old

The ex-diplomat is Senor
Julio Ceron. Sixteen others
were retried with. him and
were given. sentences of four
years instead of eight months
to. two years. =

Edwards (Labor-Bilston)
pointed out on his return from
Madrid that the only “crime”
of these Catholic democrats
was to distribute leaflets at a
football match protesting tbe
cost of living. They were char-
ged with military rebellion.

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man Ike is keeping Franco in’
power with» American dollars
and arms. ;

“Although: it is strong lang-
uage, I'say that Franco would
not exist five minutes: without
armed «forces “and: American
aid” Si ad
.’ The success: of Eisenhower’s
visit was only on the surface,
he added. “‘The masses of Span=
iards had a paid holiday. Over-
whelmingly the majority of the:
people were sullen and’ silent.

‘The cheer brigades were there.

“On every rooftop there was
a machine-gun. I’ saw them
from my hotel window. Every
10 yards there was a ‘soldier
with a rifle, and mingling
among the crowds were liter-*

Anti-Semitism mounts

The Brunswick war mem-
orial and the wall near it was
smothered: with swastikas in
red paint, with the words:
“Death to, Jews,’ and “Out
with the Jews.” :

Local- police quickly re-
moved the marks, called on
the population to assist inquir-
ies and offered a reward of
$1,000 for the capture of those
responsible.

The police in the area, who
come under the Lower Saxony
Minister of the Interior, have
not got a very good record in
their .investigations of anti-
Semitic outrages. In April 1957
a Jewish cemetery in the area
was desecrated, when grave-
stones were daubed with swas-
tikas and the words “Germany
awake,’ and ‘Down with
Israel.” No arrests were made.

Last week, also, a garage of
a citizen of Offenbach, near
Frankfurt,, was broken _ into
and..swastikas and other nazi
emblems scratched on a car.

In. Offenbach, too, the syna-
gogue was several months ago
smeared with the words: “‘Gas
them.’’ No arrests were made
then and police this week
stated..that the synagogue is
now. under continuous guard.

*Police ‘in Gelsenkirchen, in
the Ruhr, announced that
white’ swastikas were painted
on the walls of Hedwig Roman
Catholic Church last week.

Another case of swastika
smearing. was reported from
Theydt, in .the Ruhr. There
they were daubed outside the

While these ‘outrages. were

being reported the Dusseldorf

newspaper Der Mittag was de-
manding that ‘“‘the whole sub-
ject should be: closed down as
soon as. possible.”

It--declared that following
the desecration of the Cologne
synagoge: “the fuss -which, is

j/now being kicked up creates

the. impresion that ‘there was
cause for the»greatest alarm.”
"It even had the audacity to
demand that 4‘the Jewish’ side
should: also refrain from ‘pour:
ing oil'on thé fire”?

In Bonn the chairman of the

whose members are © under
arrest over the Cologne incid-
ent, tried to dismiss the whole
affair. by claiming that. they
were ‘‘two stupid people acting
on their own.” =
"The chairman, former S.S.
General’ Meinberg, claimed
that ‘his. party could not ‘in
any. way- have been the spirit-

ally hundreds of secret police.”

ual originators of this act.”

Nazi outrages in West Germany:
swastikas smeared on memorial

BERLIN—Swastikas were smeared on a memorial to victims of the Second World
War in the town of Brunswick last week while West German officials were trying
hard to whitewash the resurgence of nazism.

Police, acting on orders from | which is printed there and
the local court in Bielfeld, in| which headed a front-page
North Rhine-Westphalia, later | article on the Cologne syna-
confiscated the weekly paper|gogue desecration, ‘Provoca-
of the German Reich Party! teurs at work.”

Teamsters aid Mine-Mill
victims of Taft-Hartley —

DENVER—The Teamsters’ Union has come to the
aid of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union in its
battle against Taft-Hartley “conspiracy” charges.

News from Miami that the

In announcing his executive

Teamsters’ International exec-

utive board has voted a “‘sub-
stantial sum’’ for the defense
greatly heartened nine present
and former Mine-Mill leaders
as they prepared to fight all
the way to reverse their con-

board’s action, Teamster Presi-
dent James R. Hoffa said the
issue in the case was not. “com-
munism.” Actually, he added,
it was a case of “persecution
not prosecution’? under a sec-
tion of the Taft-Hartley Law

home of-a Jewish family: © —

German Reich «Party, two of

victions on charges of ‘con-|that was repealed with enact-
3piracy” to falsify Taft-Hart-; ment of the Landrum-Griffin-
ey non-Communist affidavits. | Kennedy Law.

An attractive sign, “Atom for Peace” written in Russian,
English and French, is lit atop the “Isotope” store on
Lenin Avenue in Moscow (top photo). The shop, which
will open:soon, will sell radioactive isotopes and protective
equipment needed for work with radioactive matters to
the purchasers frem enterprises and scientific research

establishments. The ‘shop will also trade with foreign
countries. Bottom photo shows a clerk examining pro-
tective coats. fi

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