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Light was suddenly cast on
N€ secret way wanted mass
llers succeeded, time and

j aring§ The revelation was
Made public through a little an-
Nouncement in the Bulletin of
Frontkampferbund der 45. In-
; ‘@nteriedivision Linz’ (Associa-
tion of the Frontline Fighters of
€ 45th Infantry Division).

is quite unspectacular note in
the Austrian paper included a
list, of ten:persons who were re-
Commended “not to enter French
tritory, since they would have
to. expect difficulties there.”
The following report was car-

by “Die Weltwoche,” a
qeld-known weekly in Switzer-

id:

“The ten names published by
the paper of Linz included also
lat of a certain Alois Brunner.
Ving been one of the closest
%8sociates of Eichmann and in
Charge of the ‘Special Task
Force for France” (which had
o handle the deportation of
Tench Jews), during World
ar Two, he was sentenced to
eath twice in absence by a
French court, and is one of the
Most urgently wanted mass
lers,
“Mass killer Brunner’s inclu-
Sion in the list of persons who

SOCIAL

A talk with Dr. J. Gaek,
Poreign Minister of Czechoslo-
Yakia with the Editor-in-Chief of
the International Information
Department of the Soviet news
Agency APN.
te “To begin with,” J. Gaek said,
want to stress that the feel-
ings of love and respect for your
t country were entertained
ty the people of Czechoslovakia

long time back and became
lll deeper .in'the years of the
ttugele against Hitlerite fas-
and in the post-war years
ln we helped each other on

€ international arena.
There are elements who are
tying to cast a shadow on the
Soviet-Czechoslovak friendship.
These elements cannot shake our
ttiendship. They should remem-
‘Jber once and for all that the
Teat October Socialist Revolu-
‘tion created conditions which
helped the Czechs and the Slo-
$ to gain independence and
build up their independent
State. Without the October Re-
Yolution there would have been
© Czechoslovakia. Secondly,
Ne ideas of the Great October
p.*Volution exerted a tremen-
Us influence on the organiza-
‘ion of our country’s working
lass. When Czechoslovakia was
atened by fascism, our
quntry got protection from the

“Viet Union.

th, ven Czechoslovakia waged
athe Struggle for its national libe-
tion against Hitlerite fascism,
© country was supported by
te Soviet Union. There would

Sie A

gain, in mysteriously disap-

were warned of possible difficul-
ties abroad was by no means a
grotesque coincidence. Eight of
the remaining nine people, ad-
dressed also simply as ‘ex-ser-
vicemen’ have also got sentences
for genocide or warrants of ap-
prehension issued against them,
since they were all members of
criminal national-socialist or-
ganizations.

“Brunner is wanted not only
by the French, but his name is
found also in Czechoslovak and
Greek warrants, and by the Pro-
secutor of Frankfort. Yet, the
message that warned him of the

hot ground of France came from
Bonn.”

This sensational disclosure
was made by the Jewish Docu-
mentation Centre of Vienna.
They discovered that warnings
to nazi war criminals are issued

-by the Red Cross of West Ger-

many, according to hints given
by the West German Foreign
Office.

“Die | Weltwoche,”
continued:

“Unofficial documents were
placed into the hands of the
West German Foreign Office,
‘two years ago (when Schroeder
had still been the Foreign Mini-

Zurich,

ST UNIT

have been no Czechoslovakia
without its. victory, without its
sacrifices. When our country em-
barked upon the road of build-
ing Socialism, the Soviet Union
helped us again. Once I told a
Western correspondent that if he
hoped that the voice of Czecho-
slovakia would ever sound in a
different way, you are badly mis-
taken. The voice of Czechoslo-
vakia has always been sounding
and will continue to sound as a
voice of a member of the social-
ist camp. 3

“The press of certain capitalist
countries predicts certain chan-
ges in the foreign policy of
Czechoslovakia. What do you
say on that score? What influ-
ence will the decisions of the
latest plenums of the Central
Committee of the Communist

| "Western warning service’

ster.) These documents contain-
ed the names of about 800 per-
sons that had been sentenced in
absence as so-called ex-service-
men by French courts. This list
was forwarded by the Foreign
Office to the Red Cross Search
Centre together with the request
to inform the people concerned
about their sentences.” .

The whole thing had been
tackled under the heading of
“Western Warning Service,”
and was the subject of tongue-
in-cheek rumours in Bonn for
many months.

According to “Die Welt-
woche,” “The event implies pro-
bably the solution to a riddle
which ought to be of concern to
the watchful observer in the
Federal Republic,.a riddle group-
ed around the question of how
it could be possible that hund-
reds of outstanding war crimin-
als had all the time succeeded
in escaping the courts both at
home and abroad.”

Just imagine what it means
that a mass killer, wanted by
the Prosecutor of Frankfort, is
warned of travel to France be-
cause of a death sentence by a
French court, by the Foreign
Office in Bonn.

—C(SSR

Party of Czechoslovakia have on
your country’s foreign policy
line?” :

“The basic foreign policy
orientation of Czechoslovakia
remains the same.

“When you use the term ‘ori-
entation,’ do you mean foreign

- policy positions?”

“Exactly. Czechoslovakia can,
must and will act on the inter-
national arena as a member of
the world socialist system, as a
friend of the Soviet Unicn. It
-will make more active use of
what we call Czechoslovakian
specificity—of our geographical
position, the degree of our eco-
nomic development, traditions
of our peoples, creative capaci-

_ ties of the working class, peasan-

try, intelligentsia.

“What, in your opinion, are
the prospects of the solution of
the European security problem?”

“Czechoslovakia has always
been interested in the solutions
of the problem of European secu-
rity. Czechoslovakia has always
been fighting and will continue
to fight for the inviolability of
the borders that emerged after
World War Two. It will continue
to proceed in its policy from the
fact of the existence of the two

German states. The GDR is our ,

friend and ally. As for the FRG,
we should bear in mind the dan-
ger of the revival of neo-Nazism
and militarism in West Germany
on the one hand, and the growth
of the anti-fascist and realistic
forces on the other.”

IN BRITAIN

Over 200 individual supporters
of the “May Day Manifesto”
and of local groups backing it,
mostly young people, students
and intellectuals, met at Univer-
‘sity College, London, at the
weekend to discuss next steps.

A number of representatives
of political parties were present,
including the Communist Party.

The main resolution finally
adopted said the conference be-
lieved that “the Labor Govern-
ment has now become an agent
of the new capitalist system”
and accepted “the need for a
systematic political opposition

_as outlined in the May Day

Manifesto 1968.”

‘Left groups: :

It committed those present to
the formation of a_ political
movement, radical and socialist
and primarily extra-Parliamen-
tary.

Discussions should be held, it
said, with sympathetic groups,
including trade unions, other so-
cialist groups, Left Wing Labor
Parties, university movements,
Political youth organizations,
immigrant groups, poverty cam-
Paigns, the radical Christian
Movement and the peace and
Vietnam movements.

Finally, the resolution called
for a national convention in the
autumn to launch such a unified
socialist movement.

Member of the International
Department of the Central
-Committee of the Communist
Party of Czechoslovakia
(@igest of an article in
Rude Pravo)

Opinions which condemn the
seeking of a specific road to
socialism as a nationalistic de-
viation damaging the interests
of the people of the country in
question and of the whole inter-
national Communist movement
must be rejected.

The thesis-of-a specific, na-
tional way to socialism is not a
new idea in the international
Communist movement, it is ela-
borated theoretically in docu-
ments of the various Communist
parties, and it is evident that
the different socialist countries
will carry out different forms of
building socialism, which are
distinct from one another.

It can be assumed that the
more countries there are imple-
menting socialist ideas in prac-
tice, the more of such specific
and very diverse roads there will
be. These national models of
socialism naturally differ from
their only original practical ex-
ample — the Soviet model —
which, incidentally, is also in
many ways defined by the speci-
fic features of the country and
the condtions under which it
was created and formed. How-
ever, they also differ from one
another.

Views rejecting specific roads
have their source in an incorrect
understanding of the principle
of proletarian -internationalism.
Not even the struggle for a com-
mon cause, mutual support and
cooperation give or can give the
Communist parties the answer to
the question as to which specific
forms and methods of struggle
to use for this common cause.
Not even their common Marxist
theory can contain ready solu-
tions to each specific situation in
each specific country.

The Communist Party of
Czechoslovakia starts out from
the principle that it is the in-
alienable right of each socialist
country, each Communist party,
to decide for itself what forms
it will choose for building so-
cialism in its own country, what
combination of national and
international experiences it re-

BUILDING SOCIALISM—

Distinct path
In every country

gards as the most adequate for
the interests of its country and
of the whole movement. ‘No one
can prescribe for any party what
is and what is not its interna-
tional duty. In relations between
Communist parties there can
only be the force of arguments
and ideas, the strength of con-
viction.

The main thing in Czechoslo-
vakia at present is to seek the
Czechoslovak way to the renais-
sance of socialism. We have no
intention of forcing on anyone
our own practices as the only
correct and possible ones. But it
would be an obvious lack of
comprehension of our efforts to-
day to denote them a priori as
a violation of internationalist
principle, as anti-Marxist or
even anti-Soviet. There is no

reason to doubt that in its prac- ~

tical activities the Communist

Party of Czechoslovakia, true to ~

its best international traditions,
will continue to respect the com-
mon interests of the socialist
countries and the Communist
movement.

The application of interna-
tionalism in the practical activi-
ties of the Communist parties
cannot be understood as the me-
chanical copying of the socialist
model of one country. This
would give rise to an abnormal
situation — which, incidentally,
we all remember — whereby
the measure of the socialist
character of society would not
be merely some basic economic
and political principles but their.
complex Soviet as well as their
specific application.

This, naturally, in no way
lessens the importance of the
Soviet experiences in building
socialism and still less does it
justify ignoring the role played
by the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union and the Soviet
Union itself on an international
scale. Of course, the respecting
of Soviet experiences is far
from meaning that these. ex-
periences should be taken over
indiscriminately. They should be
applied in a creative way and,
on the basis of Soviet experien-
ces, those errors and shortcom-
ings should be avoided which
the CPSU itself committed in
building socialism.

(Translation by the Czecho-
slovak Press Bureau.)

MAY 10, 1968—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7

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