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By CHARLES SIMS

TORONTO
“Phe release of Nazi General
Kurt Meyer would be the greatest
crime ever committed by a Cana-
dian government!” A father whose
beloved sdn, Private Richard
Smith, was murdered on Kurt
Meyer’s orders, said’ this to the
Canadian Tribune last week.

Dick Smith was 19 years old|-

when he was murdered. He had
been wounded in action. Meyer’s
SS killers murdered him.

The memories of Dick Smith
and all other Canadian heroes
murdered by Meyer’s fascist’ SS
men demand that every Canadian
support the appeal of

ronto — and act swiftly, strongly,
» prevent the St. Laurent govern-
committing the crime . of
freeing Nazi General Meyer
or as hinted in Ot-
sending him back to

a by

vil plot to free Meyer
back a long way.
criminal’ Meyer was se
be shot on December 28,

dismissed Meyer's af

(Then ,sinister force put
pressure to save this Na
criminal’s life. ay

John Escott Read, chief leg
adviser of Canada’s external a
fairs department, Lieut. Gene!
Simonds and Canada’s Chief
Staff, Lieut. General Murchie
consulted by Major General
—and on January 16, 1946
announced that he had ca
the Meyer death sentence.

John E. Reinecke, teach er
writer, Esther Bristow, f

berties Committee, a
K. Fujimoto, chairman
Communist party of Ww
acquitted of contemp
gress in an importan
ed down here by KE
Delbert E. Metzgé
The three belonged
89 who had decli
questions put by —
American : aetivities ©
to communist affilia
Metzger based
a U.S. Supreme ‘Co
such questions ni
wered if asked:
He pointed out
that was uncons
by a grand jury
stitutional if
sional committee, t s
door to a review of all’ contempt
of Congress cases now before va-
rious U.S. courts.

Germany. ns

d consulted Read, Sim-
urchie, and they agreed
death penalty was not

huary 16, General Murch-
behalf of Canada’s Army
Staff, announced he agreed
ke’s cancellation of the
eath sentence and added:
ve not read the evidence
}. mor the trial proceedings . . .
but have full confidence in the
udgment of Vokes.”

‘ ‘Today, even mere powerful
forces ’seek to release the unre-
pentent Meyer from Dorchester
Penitentiary. They are the same
warmaking men who have releas-
ed Krupp and hundreds of other
war \criminals, who are hell-bent
on re-arming Germany, who are
conducting a furious campaign for
U.S. General Hisenhower’s slogan,
“Tet bygones be bygones” as far
as the German Nazi and militar-
war criminais are concerned.
* * * :
General Meyer was part of

>| gomery
Europe . .
jation of the fight.”

azicGerman General Staff
acy that violated every hu-
and military law and moral-
m murdering prisoners-of-war
vilians. The murder of Can-
yprisoners-of-war by Meyer’s
-men was no isolated instance:
“was the pattern of the SS creed
and practise.
General Hans Speidel, who
last month sat down in Bonn
with Eisenhower to plan*a new
German Army, /was the man
vho handed down orders’ to Kurt
Meyer. Speidel was the chief-

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f-staff to Marshall Rommel,
e commander of the German
Army Group, B that met the
Canadians in Normandy on June
6 1944—historic D Day.

‘Today they want to release
feyer and get him. back to Ger-
y to head up another Panzer
sion of SS killers!

Von Speidel has been appointed
head man for the new German
“Army! He is to be one of Bisen-
hower’s deputies! Von Speidel’s
new book, Invasion, 1944, is part
of the U.S. Atlantic war pact
plan aiming to exonerate Meyer
and all the German generals and
officers from the criminal war
guilt for which they were convic-
ted at the Nuremberg Trials of
1945.

Von Speidel ends his book with
the 1951 “Americanized” creed of
the German war criminals: “He
who is conscious of his honor as
a soldier is untarnished by the
many discussions of war guilt.”
He sets out the creed of Nazi Mar-
shal Rommel as “Armistice with
Generals Eisenhower and Mont-

A United States of
. In the East—continu-

The campaign for Meyer's re-
lease springs from Washington,
D.C. It is pnart of the criminal
drive of Yankee imperialism to

rearm Germany.

‘A bas la Eanucriotiah 7

“Hisenhower! Va t’en chez nous!”
Canadians, defying police cordons, recently greeted General Eisenhower at Ottawa.

(Eisenhower!

Go home!) .was the cry with which young

The same cry

- in English, French, Italian and German rang in his ears wherever he went in Europe.

Peace everyone’s business
states Gardner in call —
to B.C. peace conference

All peace-loving citizens of British Columbia are
British Columbia Peace Conference to be held in Vancouver

Columbia Peace Committee announced this week.

“Peace is not only everyone's
business, but everyone’s responsi-
bility and therefore literally ey-
eryone is invited to participate in
the Second B.C. Peace Confer-
ence,”. Ray Gardner, Vancouver
newspaperman and conference or-
ganizer, declares in a press state-
ment.

At the conference a British
Columbia ~peace mission will be
organized to proceed to Vic-
toria March 19 to place before
Premier Byron Johnson and his

cabinet proposals for achieving
lasting world peace.

Basis of discussion at the con-
ference will be the World Peace
Council’s nine-point program, for-
mulated by more than 2,000 dele-
gates and observers from 81 na-
tions at the Second World Cong-
ress of the Defenders of Peace
held last November in Warsaw
and Sheffield. ;

ater’ 2

“This program actually repre-
sents the opinions. of a complete
cross-section of the peace-loving
people of the world,’’ said Gard-
ner, who with Alex Gordon, busi-
ness agent of the Fishermen’s
Union, represented British Colum-
bia at the Congress.

t
“Politically, almost every party
in the world was represented at

being invited to attend the Second

‘March 17 and 18, the British

x
| Warsaw,
tives to Communists.
72 religious leaders present as
well as hundreds of laymen.
These included Catholics, Protes-

ranging from Conserva-
There were

tants.and Jews from all the West-
ern countries. And, of course,
more countries were represented

there than are to be found in the
United Nations, including the real
representatives of the 475 million
people of China. Our ranks in-
cluded men and women from ev-
ery walk of life, coal miners, peas-
ant farmers, famous writers and
artists, scientists, housewives, doc-
tors, dentists, lawyers.”

Though the World Peace Coun-
cil’s nine-point program will form
the basis for discussion, Gardner
stressed that, by no means, will
discussion be limited to these pro-
posals. :

“Any person or organization in
agreement with only one point
is invited to participate. More
than that, we ask individuals. and
groups who may have alternative
peace proposals to attend and
place them before the conference,”
said Gardner. ‘

“The news of the last few
weeks—the release of some of
the worst Nazi war criminals,
including Alfred’ Krupp, leading,

OPINION OF CANADIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER | es,

od

Meyer ‘most dangerous’ of Nazi fanatics

TORONTO}

Major Milton Shulman, attached
to the Intelligence Staff of the
Canadian Army Overseas, inter-
viewed SS General Kurt Meyer
three months after the war ended
at a “black” camp so designated
because it held the most danger-
ous Nazi prisoners. Shulman in-
terrogated Field-Marshal Karl von
Rundstedt, commander in chief of
German armies in the west; SS
Colonel General Sepp Dietrich and
others. He tells of his discus-
sions with Meyér in his’ book De-
feat in the West, published in
1947: >

“As a group, post-war generals
fall. into three categories — the
fanatics, the disillusioned and- the
converts. No one better repre-

sented the fanatics than Brigade-
fuhrer (Major-General) Kurt Mey-
ers? Meyer is typical of the
kind of German it would be most
dangerous to Jet loose in Ge ny-
once again. A devoted disciple of
Nazism, and all that it stands for,
his mind is so distorted by pseu-
do-philosophy, military
and bald lies that no_ possible
experience could even purify it of

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its beliefs .. .- rs

“His first words to us were, ‘You
will hear a lot against Adolf Hit-
ler in this camp, but you will
never hear it from me. As far as
I am concerned he was and still is
the, greatest thing that ever hap-
pened to Germany’.” i

“When he began to wander into

the political field, it’ might have

jingojsm |. ...

been the reincarnation of Hitler,
and Goebbels voicing their cant,”
writes Shulman. G

(From Ottawa a report saying
top authorities want to send Mey-
er back to Germany notes “in the
view of those who have talked to
him (he) is an unrepentant Nazi
some here suggest that if he
were free in Germany today he
would in a few years become the
leader of the German forces in the
integrated force in Europe.’’)

Shulman records that Meyer
spoke with contempt of the people
of Asia and Russia as leading an
“animal-like existence” and _ the
need for a final war against these
people. | , ;

“So seriously do I belieye in this
menace,” said Meyer, “that I have

spoken to many of my young SS
officers who are in this camp with
me (the camp was classified as a
‘black’ camp containing the most
dangerous Nazis among German
prisoners of war) ... I am there-
fore prepared to offer the Allied
authorities my services and those
of ‘the other SS officers in Allied
hands ... my proposition is that
I be given permission to recruit
one SS division of about 23,000
men. from amongst the German
prisoners of war. ‘The formation
will be named the ‘SS Division
Europa’ and it is to be’ equipped
with German weapons and equip-
ment. I will have no difficulty in
raising the men for such a unit to
take part in the struggle against
the east. We will then show you
how Germans can fight!” .

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member of the most infamous
warmongering family in history
and a Nazi doctor who perform--
ed experiments on living humans,
as well as our OV Canadian
decision to spend $5 billions on

war—these events lend new urg-
ency to the struggle for world
peace.

“Tt is therefore a matter of ex-
treme urgency, in our view, that
all citizens of British ‘Columbia,
no matter their own political
opinions or their religious beliefs,
unite to work .out a common pol-
ey to secure the peace.

“phat is why our . conference,

‘besides inviting all trade unions,

Canadian: Legion branches, Church
bodies, PTA groups and other or-
ganizations to participate, is also
inviting church and community
leaders to come as observers with
the full right to speak and to
vote. :

“It is also why we urge indivi-
dual citizens to form small groups
of five or more fellow citizens to

‘

send a delegate to the confer- |
ence.”

The conference will open at
Clinton Hall here, at 10.30 a.m.

March 17, continuing on March
18. Registration fee is $1.

Further information may be ob-
tained from the B.C. Peace Com-
mittee at Room 40, 144 West
Hastings, Vancouver. Telephone
is MArine 9958.

Gardner has just returned from
a speaking tour which took him
to Victoria, Lake Cowichan, Ne-
naimo, Courtenay, Kamloops, Sal
mon Arm, Armstrong, Trail, Ross~
land, ‘Kinnaird, Kimberley and
Grand Forks. :

“J found everywhere,” Gard-
ner reports, “that public apathy
toward the question of peace is
disintegrating. People have no
stemach for what is going on
in Korea. There is a strong
feeling that Canada should re-
cognize People’s China and do
everything in its power to see
that People’s China is represent-
ed in the United Nations.

“As a mnewspaperman, I was
particularly interested to find that
few if any people have any faith
in the reports they read in the
daily press concerning the issues —
of peace and war.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 16, 1951 — PAGE 2