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PRESS SUPPRESSES CONFESSION

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Mindszenty admitte

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court, Cardinal Mindszenty wrote

After his arrest on the, charges of treaso

- the documentary evidence in the case
“Tam a Hungarian nobleman.
noble in 1832. On my mother’s side I am_descen

was raised to the nobility in 1663.
“In February 1917, I was

Clerk admits
‘perjury in
trial of ‘12’

NEW YORK.

Admission that he had sworn to
a false affidavit was added to the
list of contradictory, ~ evasive,
and sometimes bizarre testimony
wrung from Jury Clerk Joseph R.
McKenzie by attorneys for the 12

Communist leaders on trial here
for teaching Marxist-Leninist prin-
ciples.

McKenzie confessed that an af-
fidavit sworn to by him last Oc-
tober claiming that all new jurors
summoned ‘in 1947 and 1948 came
from voters’ registries was false.

Following disclosure that seven
pages were missing from 2 record
book kept by the jury clerk con-
taining lists of people summoned
for jury service, the new sen-
sational. admission shook the
prosecution which had summoned
to the stand McKenzie.

The defense is charging that
the jury system im vogue here
is dominated by the rich and ex-
cludes workers, Negroes and
members of political minorities.
It is asking dismissal of the
indictments against the Commu-
nist leaders on the grounds the
grand jury which ordered the in-
dictment was thus illegally con-
stituted.

McKenzie’s admission, from
which Judge Harold R. Medina
protect him, is
a vital bit of evidence in estab-
lishing the charge. The. false af-
fidavit played an important part
in a deéision by Federal Judge
Murray WHulburt dismissing an
earlier plea of the Communist
leaders that the grand jury which
indicted them was not an “im-
partial cross-section” of the people,
as required by law.

Since Judge Medina has reserved
decision on a government motion
throwing out the jury challenge be-
cause of Judge Hulbert’s prior de-
Cision, McKenzie’s confession that
he had testified falsely is a bitter
blow to the government.

The admission came while Mc-
Kenzie was being cross-questioned
by Defense Attorney Harry Sacher
of New York. Sacher asked the
jury clerk how many people sent
notices to report for jury qualifi-
cation had been taken from the
Directory of Directors, and were
corporation directors.

McKenzie scanned his huge rec-
ord book, did some figuring with
a pencil and came up with the
reply that 200 had been sent to
such people in May of 1948 and 250
in October. K

“Then 33 and one-third percent
of all 750 notices sent in October
went to corporation directors?
Sacher inquired.

“That’s right,” McKenzie re-
plied.

Sacher then introduced into ev!
dence McKenzie's sworn affidavit
of October 6, 1948, stating he had
been jury clerk for 10 years, and
that in carrying out his: duties che
selected prospective jurors “at
random from lists of registered
voters,”

this full confession,

sent to Zalaegersz2g as a teacher of

Cardinal regretted )
not more Jews slain

—LONDON

A revealing insight into the
character of Cardinal Mindszenty
is given by a correspondent for
the London News-Chronicle who
interviewed him some time ago.
During the interview the corres-
pondent asked Mindszenty what
he thought about the fate of
Europe’s Jews during the war.

Curtly and concisely, reports
the correspondent, the cardinal
replied that it was regrettable
that the Nazis had slain only
5,000,000 Jews and a mere hand-
ful of ,Hungary’s 400,000 Jews.

When Mindszenty had finished,
the correspondent stood up. “I
thank your eminence,” she said.
“f am the daugi:ter of a Rabbi
in Whitechapel.”

This is the man whose convic-
tion of treason at a public trial
-is denounced by President Tru-
man as “infamous” and by Pope
Pius as “religious persecution,”
_while anti-communist writers like
Dorothy Thompson compare him
to Thomas a’Becket as a martyr.

Nazis edit
U.S. journals

—BERLIN

Gerhard Jackel, a publicity man
who was formerly attached to the
Nazi air force’ and wrote pieces
about the fun of machine-gunning
French and Polish refugees, now
edits the American-licensed Ger-
man magazine Quick.

Quick’s staff also includes film
director Carl Ritter, who made
horror movies ‘of Russia after Ger-
man attacked her, and radio
commentator Baron von Wildegg,
who specialized in broadcasting
Nazi party news and was a radio
reporter with the Nazi army.

Another American-licensed mag-
azine, Revue, has taken over a
large part of the staff of the Nazi
picture sheet Signal, formerly pub-
lished in several European langu-
ages under the direct supervision

of Hitler's propaganda chief,
Joseph: Goebbels. Former editor
Moeslang of Signal now edits

Revue, which employs five other
Signal writers.

e hoped for U.S. ai

n of which he has since been convicted by a Hungarian
reprinted here from the “Yellow Book’ containing
“published by the Hungarian government.

My original sumame was Pehm. The Pehm family was declared
ded from the Hungarian noble family of Kovacs which

religion. In 1919, I was papomted |

parson of that same place and I
worked there in the capacity until
March 29, 1944, when I became
bishop of» Veszprem. I was ap-
pointed prince primate in October,
1945.

“Recalling my public activities I
declare that I have always con-
sidered myself a royalist. That is
why I have always supported to
the greatest possible extent those
political tendencies that helped to
realize that aim. After my appoint-
ment as prince primate I could
serve my aims all the more ef-

ficiently.

“My aim is the aim of the
monarchist movement in Hun-
gary: a federative central Euro-
pean monarchy, with a personal
union between Hungary and Aus-
tria, and with other Catholic
states, in the first place Bavaria,
that might perhaps join it, and
with Otto Hapsburg on the
throne. I only. thought this pos-
sible after the overthrow of the
Hungarian republic with foreign,
and in the first place American
aid.

“It was in the interests of this
that I did everything to support
American politics in Hungary, part-
ly by urging their constant inter-
ference, by a regular service of
facts, and by espionage.

“T did not rely only on the Ameri-
cans for my purpose; I organized
all those forces, both in Hungary
and abroad, whose interest it was
to overthrow the republic and with
it its institutions and accomplish-
ments, such as the land reform and
nationalization.

“Tt expected the restoration of
the monarchy after the conclu-
sion of a third world war by an
American victory. For the tran-
sition period, until such time as
Otto should return, I would have
been temporary head of state. I
wanted to crown Otto myself be-
cause it would have secured for
me all those privileges that, are
granted to one who is foremost
in the peerage.

“T acknowledge that from the
days of my youth I opposed every
democratic policy of the Hungarian
people and supported right-wing
movements.” :

British studios hit

—LONDON

Nearly 1,000 film workers and

technicians were laid off by British
studios during February.

Nineteen out of Britain’s 26. pro-
duction companies are now idle,

mainly as a result of competition
by U.S. films. — ‘

Discuss Austrian treaty

Representatives of the Big Four meet in London to resume
the Austrian peace treaty negotiations which were adjourned last

May. Left to right are:

Samuel Reber,

United States; Marcel

Betkelot, France; Georgi Nikolavich Zaroubin, Soviet Union; J. M.

.Marjoribanks, Britain.

Markos relinquishes ©

Free Greek

The statement issued after the

leadership

—PRAGUE

fifth plenary session of the central

committee of the Communist Party of Greece, held in the Grammos
mountain range January 30-31, confirms officially what has been feared

by democrats for months: General
months operational communiques
issued by the Greek Democratic
Army have been signed, not by!
General Markos, leader of the Free |
Greek forces but by Major-General |
Goussias, victor. of the Grammos
and Vitsi battles.

The fact that Markos was ill has
been known to democratic Greek
circles in Prague and elsewhere
in eastern Europe for some time,
and certain correspondents for
American and British newspapers
seized on the point that he was
no- longer signing communiques
to bolster their false claim that he
had been executed.

General Markos has written an
open letter addressed to the Greek
people, the Democratic army and
all his comrades-in-arms announc-
ing that owing to his ill-health
he has been obliged to relinquish
his duties as president of the Greek

provisional Democratic govern-
ment and leader of the Democratic
army.

General Markos’ letter concludes
with the words: “I emphasize my
confidence in total victory. Long
live the provisional Democratic
government of Greece. Long live

Labor to meet in

Asiatic conference |

—PARIS

Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Indon-
esian Siamese, Viet Nam and Philip-
‘pine union federations will be rep-!
resented at the Pan-Asiatic Labor
Union Conference to be held in
China next fall, according to Liu
Ning-yi, delegate to the World Fed-
eration of Trade Unions from the
All-China Labor Federation, which
is issuing the invitations.

The WFTU itself will hold its
next executive board meeting,
scheduled for May, in the North
China city of Peiping. Preparations
for the Pan-Asiatic conference,
which is to be called under WFTU
auspices, will be among the sub-

jects discussed.

WORLD WAR THREE?

‘BERLIN.

America’s chances of winning
a third world war are much
worse than Hitler’s were in
1941, the newspaper Berliner
Zeitung concludes after making
an analysis of the forces which
would be engaged in such a
conflict.

Arriving at the conclusion
Ren

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U.S. chances worse than Hitler's

that the strength of land forces
would be decisive in any future
war, as it was in the last, and
that atom bombing alone could
not win a war, the paper points
out that the United States has
not now and could not in the
future mobilize a fighting army
that could wage a war on Hit-
ler’s scale.

The U.S. and her satellites

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would be forced to spread their
forces all over the world, and
could not concentrate them on
fronts facing opposing armies,
hecause of the need to maintain
military rule throughout the co-
lonial countries and tle Far
East. She would be forced to
mobilize land forces exceeding
by many times those mobilized
by Hitler.

Markos is gravely ill. For three

the Greek people. Everyone to
arms, everything for victory!—
Free Greece, February 4, 1949.
Signed—Markos Vafiadis.”

The central committee  state-
ment includes a report on the sit-
uation in Greece “before the de-
cisive turn of the civil war towards
victory” for the Democratic forces
and a report on “rightist and op-
portunist deviations within the
Greek Communist party.”

The central committee describes
1949. as the decisive year of vic- —

tory in the Greek civil war. a

“During 1948 the political situa-
tion in Monarcho-facist Greece
has further disintegrated. Control
of the entire economic life passed
into the hands of the Americans.
American dollars, however, were |
stamped exclusively for war pur—
poses.

“The deficit of the Monarchko-
fascist government’s budget rose.
by over two billion drachmas. In-.
flation worsens day by day and
cannot be held. Industry is dead.
Unemployment weighs heavily
upon the workers. The decline of
agriculture increases, Seven hun-
dred thousand hungry and miser- —
able peasants have been forcibly
deported to the towns.” é

‘Despite the setbacks suffered by
the enemy, however, the Democrat-
ic forces failed in the past year ta
solve the vital problem of mobiliz-_
ing the necessary reserves for the
liberation struggle due to rightist
and opportunistic deviations, the
statement declares.
tions were mainly apparent in the
view taken that “without help from
abroad it is impossible to form
a regular revolutionary army, and
that small partisan groups should
replace the regular revolutionary
army.” :

“Thousands of men in Athens
as well as in other cities held by
the Monarcho-fascists are wait-
ing for a chance to join the
Greek Democratic Army,” the |
statement declares, “but nothing
was done to give them this
chance.” The Communist leaders
in Athens took a conciliatory
attitude in tace Of Monarcho-
fascist terror

The plenary meeting of the cen-

tral committee also adopted deci-
sions criticizing the leadership of
the Communist Party during the
German occupation. “The leader-
ship then deviated far from Lenin-
ist-Stalinist lines.’ The struggle
against British military interven-
tion during December, 1944, was
not organized and prepared.

“We could have militarily de-
feated British intervention at that
time. Those who doubted then that ©
we could have defeated British in-
tervention are those who today be-
lieve that it is impossible to form —
a regular revolutionary army.”

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