Papagos

linked to.

war drive

LONDON

The new Greek government of
Field (Marshal Papagos, whose fas-
cist Greek Rally won the recent
elections, is expected to intensify
the war drive in the Balkans. The
Greek Rally is regarded there as
being completely subservient to the
U.S. embassy in Athens and there
is no doubt that its loose alliance
With Tito’s Yugoslav regime and
the present Turkish government
will increase the danger of new
Provocations.

The recent election was charac-
terized by a terror which kept 50
percent of the electorate from the
pous, slashed the vote of the Cen-
tre parties and ‘held down that: of
the left EDA to the 1951
figure of 10 percent of the total.

wing

But it is clear that had the Cen-

tre parties, led by former Premier
Plastiras, agreed to join forces with
EDA, the two could have defeated
the Greek Rally.

Figures from all but 70 of the
Nearly 4,000 polling stations were:
Rally 627,254. Centre parties 441,-
160, EDA 144,176.

A simple addition of the last two

is itself almost enough to; upset the

Rally victory, without allowing for
the great impetus unity would have.
Given to the opposition forces. ~

- Compared with 1951, the Greek
Rally only added 3,000 votes to its
total and the great change was the
failure of the: Centre parties’ sup-
Porters to vote. ’

Even now, iff the democratic
forces can establish unity, they will
be strong enough to save Greece.

The final state of the parties in
the new parliament will be Greek
Rally 241, Centre parties 59, Left-
Wing EDA 0... ;

The exaggerated victory of the
Greek Rally and the exclusion of
EDA ‘from parliament is the result
Of the new system of apportioning
MP's which was imposed in Greece
& few days ago before the outgo-

ing parliament was dissolved.

| U.S. hell-bomb scare again

A renewed attempt by U.S. militarists to use the H-bomb as they
long used the A-bomb to promote war hysteria is seen behind recent
“leaks” suggesting that the U.S. may have tested a hydrogen bomb
Speculation about the hydrogen bomb was first
aroused by the unusual cloud (above) produced by the British atom
bomb test off the coast of West Australia earlier this year.

at Eniwetok atoll.

Court quashes sentences

Soviet ‘spy plot’ in

Sweden blows up

STOCKHOLM

Sweden’s court of appeal has
quashed a sentence of five, years
hard labor for espionage for the
Soviet Union passed by Stockholm
city court on Leo Larsson, a Swed--
ish railway lineman.

Larsson was a member of the
local home guard~ responsible for
guarding a stretch of the North
Swedish iron ore railway against
sabotage in wartime.

He is the fourth to be freed of
those originally charged in this spy
trial, which has been denounced by

the Soviet Union as trumped-up

from. beginning to end.

Qn November 4 the appeal of
Communist town councillor Arthur
Karlsson was allowed and his sen-
tence annulled. The case against
two others was dismissed at .the
first trial.

An appeal by Hugo Gjersvold
was dismissed by the court of ap-
peal last week but he may appeal
again.

The case arose out of the story
of a Swedish journalist -callqed En-
bom that he had planned to recruit
a fifth “column of “200 Commun-
ists” to seize Sweden’s frontier for-
tifications,

US. shadow over Siam

S d f di i r in s t Asia with the con-

iam is rapidly being transformed into a United States base in southeas : h h

oe a And, as in every country where U.S. economic penetration and
’

7 i-national licies are meeting widespread re-
iti i i i the government's anti-national po :
ee Se Pare ef behind the Siamese government’s recent discovery of a “commun-_

i i street scene in
ist plot’—the now familiar trick to smash popular resistance. Picture above shows a

~Rivance of a compliant government.

sistance among the people.

angkok, the Siamese capital.

Slansky plotted for
‘second Yugoslavia’
in Czechoslovakia

PRAGUE

Rudolph Slansky, former general secretary of the Czechoslovakia

Communist party, pleaded guilty

to charges of espionage, sabotage

and treason in the trial of 14 former leading Communists which

opened here last week.

Among the other defendants are Vladimir Clementis, former

junior minister and party officials.

In his opening statement Slansky
said he would try to make an honest
confession of his crimes, and Geclar-
ed that he had posed as an adherent
of Bolshevism but had not in fact
been one.

Slanksy said in his examination
that he had been associated with
Czechoslovak freemasonry and that
freemasons and Anglo-American
imperialists “hang closely together.”

He told the court that Vladimir
Clementis was among the agents he
had planted in senior positions in
various government departments.

He added that Clementis gave in-
formation on Czechoslovakia’s~ re-
lations with foreign countries to
Konni Zilliacus, a Briton.

The court president asked: ‘Was
Zilliacus an agent?”

Slansky replied: “In the summer
of 1948 I gave Konni Zilliacus—this
Anglo-American agent — informa-
tion of an espionage character.”

Slansky added that he maintained
contact with Zilliacus in writing
and also personally.

(In London, Konni Zilliacus, well
known writer and former Labor
‘MP, denied Slansky’s statements).

The restoration of capitalism, “in
‘a similar way as happened in Yugo-
slavia,”’ was to be brought about by
enemies planted into the Commun-
ist party who were to disintegrat
the party, Slansky said. :

From Zilliacus he received secret
instructions and material through
the intermediary of Eduard Gold-
stuecker, attache at the Czech em-
bassy in London, he added.

The indictment states that Slan-
sky was working for the U.S. in-
telligence service as far back as
1930, and was an agent during the
period that he was leading the
Slovak national rising against the
Nazis in 1944. ‘

After the liberation in 1945 he
gathered around him a group of
traitors and placed them in import-
ant positions in the national econ-
omy, says the indictment.

The group shad contacts with
the British and U.S. embassies and
with foreign correspondents in
Prague, including the representative
of the London Times.

Other points of the indictment
included:

V That up to the time of their
arrest the accused attempted to
make use of the Czechoslovak arm-
ed forces for their nefarious plans
of undermining the security and
economic position of Czechoslo-
vakia. :

V That they conspired together
and with agents of foreign , govern-
ments to transmit state secrets, in-’
cluding military secrets

V Slansky and seven others failed
to fulfil their duty in the imple-
mentation of the State Economic

| Development Plan;

V Slansky, Josef Frank and two
others worked for the enemy in-
telligence during the Second World
War supplying military secrets to:
the German Command and thus
committing high treason.

‘Clementis is charged with plac-
ing enemies of the state in import-
ant diplomatic posts abroad and
with other grave offences.

Also charged are Otto Sling, for-
mer Communist party secretary in
Brno, Andre Simon, former mem-
ber of the editorial staff of the
Communist newspaper Rude Pravo,
and Bedrich Geminder, former head
of the party’s foreign affairs com-
mittee.

With them in the dock are Lud-

vik Frejka, former head of the eco-
nomic department of the president’s
office; Josef Frank, former deputy
general secretary of the Communist
party; Bodrich Raicin, former de-
puty minister of national defense;
Karel Svab, former deputy min-
ister of national security;

Artur, London and Vavro Hadjo,
former deputy foreign ministers;
Evzen Loebl and Rudolf Magolius,
former deputy ministers of foreign
trade; and Otto Fisl, former deputy
minister of finance.

‘The accused were arrested in
1950 and 1951 as the Czechoslovak
security services unearthed’ the
widespread conspiracy of which the
14 men now indicted were the heads.

The aim of the conspiracy was
to take Czechoslovakia out of the
Socialist camp into alliance with
the United States, as the Tito group
succeeded in doing in Yugoslavia.

Tito spies
sentenced —
in Hungary

bd BUDAPEST

Four men were sentenced to death
for espionage here today at the end
of the trial of the Yugoslav spy
ring. All were agents of the UDB,
the Yugoslav Gestapo. They were
Laszlo Balint, a Yugoslav citizen,
Sandor Kenyere, Dr. Gyorgy Balint
and Istvan Pupos, ali Hungarians

A fifth man, Janos Pupos, was
sentenced to. life imprisonment.

The trial revealed that to escape
punishment for blackmail Laszlo
Balint fled to Yugoslavia where he
was recruited by the UDB and giv-
en the task of returning to Hungary

to organize a spy network.

He was also ordered to kidnap
or .murder Yugoslav political
emigres who have received asylum
in Hungary, with the help of the
Yugoslav embassy in Budapest, and
was promised armed incidents on
the border to facilitate his return.

Laszlo Balint, who cannot re-
member all his criminal convictions,
then recruited Kenyeres and Dr.
Gyorgy Balint, who had both aid-
ed him in previous crimes, and the
other members of the gang.

The gang was supplied with guns |

and grenades, knives, poison and
American-made rubber boats, ex-
hibited at the trial, and false Hun-
garian identification papers printed
at the Yugoslav State Printing
Press.

Twenty-six-year-old Sandor Ken-
yeres, who appeared in court in a
suit of American cut, told how the
gang’s plans included the blowing
up of all the reconstructed Buda-
pest bridges and killing the prime
minister.

In his summing up the prosecu-
tor stated that the real accomplices
of the spy ring were Tito and the
UDB. :

There was undeniable proof of
the liaison between the spies, the
Yugoslav embassy in Budapest, and
Belgrade.

Here, too, was evidence, he said,
of the real meaning of the $100
million Mutual Security Act pass-
ed by the U.S. government last
year for terrerist activities in the

USSR and People’s Democracies.

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