“Human Rights” charade in Rome —

of fascists,

Special to the Tribune

BERLIN — ‘“‘The Second
International Sakharov Hearings
on Human Rights held in Rome
Was a masked ball in which Jew-
ish misleaders, Ukrainian war
Criminals, Hitler agents and war-
Mongering fanatics masqueraded
as fighters for human rights.”’

That was the summary made |

here this week of the Rome meet-
Ing of so-called ‘‘dissidents’’ by
the Canadian writer, Sydney
Gordon.

: Gordon, who is best known for
his international bestseller, with
Ted Allan, The Scalpel, the
Sword, is putting the finishing
touches to a book “‘about sup-

Posed dissidents, real fascists,
emigre Ukrainian nationalists and
the current prostitution of the
Concept of human rights’’.
A Nasty World
In a commentary made here in
Berlin, where he lives, Gordon
Said‘ ‘For some years now I have
been investigating the dark nether
world in which most of the par-
ticipants in the so-called
Kharov Conference at Rome
Operate. It is a nasty world in
which the truth is murdered daily.
It is a world in which people call-
Ing themselves Zionists work
Closely with mass murderers of
Jews who call themselves free-
dom fighters; in which Ukrainian
_ fationalists, journalists in the pay
Of the CIA, secret agents and old
Hitlerites pursue a conspiracy
against peace and detente.
The so-called Second
v Conference was sup-
Posed to expose violations of
human rights in the Soviet Union
and the socialist world. All that it
€xposed was the debased and un-
Scrupulous character of its parti-
Cipants.
Mafia of Fascists
It also confirmed the fact that
they have dropped all pretence
and are publicly presenting them-
Selves as members of an interna-
tional mafia of fascists, col-
orators of fascists and war
Criminals.’? :
Gordon said a look at the list of
Speakers was enough to establish
at point.
One of the main speakers,”
Tr Said, ‘‘was Leonid Plyusch.
his former inmate of a Soviet
Psychiatric hospital maintains
the is the only true communist
and that the Soviet Communist
pany. has abandoned com-
; eum. On the other hand, a fea-
i a of the conference was a spe-
: Message from Alexander Sol-
€nitsyn, who curses com-
Munism of every variety, has re-
Peatedly praised the pro-Hitler
Seen traitors and now demands
Russia’ (minus all the other
OViet republics) return to the old
Peasant state of the Czars.

. Political Twins
x Here the supposed com-
Unist and the anti-communist
. Putin of the ‘dissidents’ ap-
a as political twins. Every-
“Sh they say for the public is
€ly incidental to their main
©me: the destruction of the
wiet regime. ‘
ere was an.even more
mmamatic example at the Rome
ate ofhow fanatical hatred of
Sa Ism and the Soviet Union
Reo ate blood brothers of
ae who would seem to be
hp enemies. It was the pre-
ie among the main speakers of
on Wiesenthal and the former

t

Partisans attacking nazi
World War Two.

Ukrainian Cardinal Yosif Slipyi.
__ ‘Wiesenthal is an ardent Zion-
ist: He has boasted of his close

’ connections to Israeli secret ser-

vices. He has for years cultivated
the legend that he is a Jewish av-
enger mercilessly hunting down
nazi murderers of Jews. When he
appeared on the same platform
with Cardinak Slipyi, did he point
‘the finger at Slipyi and denounce
him as a Hitlerite, an enemy of the
Jews and human rights?

‘‘Not in the least. Neither de-
nounced the other. Both united in

denouncing the Soviet Union. :

This should surely have a shatter-
ing effect among Jews and others
who are not yet aware of the
grotesque fact that various Zion-
ists, including Israeli agents, have
for years been collaborating
closely with mass murderers of
Jews, with Hitlerites and with war
criminals, = Sate ad
Supported Hitler

‘‘Who, for example; is Cardinal
Slipyi, If Wiesenthal is such an
expert on war criminals, he must
know that until 1945 Cardinal
Slipyi was deputy head of the
West Ukrainian Uniate Catholic
Church, under the notorious Met-
ropolitan Scheptitsky, and that
both supported the Hitlerite oc-
cupation of the Ukraine during
World War Two.

‘‘Both gave their blessings to
Ukrainian traitors in the Organi-
zation of Ukrainian Nationalists
(OUN) who. worked and fought
for Hitler, whose members en-
tered Lvov in nazi uniforms in
1941 and slaughtered the city’s
entire Jewish population, along
with anti-nazi Poles and
Ukrainians.

‘Cardinal Slipyi gave his bless-
ings to members of OUN who set
up bandit units with nazi arms to
fight the Soviet armies. He
praised these groups which wiped
out whole Jewish and Ukrainian
villages, and slaughtered other
Soviet citizens with a bestiality
equal to that of the worst nazis.
He and his chief, Scheptitsky,
gave refuge to Ukrainian agents
of Hitler like A. Melnyk, leader of
an OUN faction; in Scheptitsky’s
palace.

Gave His Blessings

‘Cardinal Slipyi came to the
nazis’ aid in 1943 with an appeal
to the Ukraine’s youth to join the
traitorous Ukrainian Galicia Divi-
sion the nazis were trying to set
up to aid their hard-pressed
forces. When his superior, Schep-
titsky, named priests who were to
act as chaplains in the various
Galicia units, it was Cardinal
Slipyi who, at a public ceremony
in Lvov, gave them his and the
hierarchy’s blessing for their
work in the Hitlerite forces. —

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occupation armies in the Ukraine during

Slipyi to the bitter end exhorted
the ‘faithful’ to fight against their
Soviet homeland until a nazi vic-
tory that never came. When the
nazis were defeated, Cardinal
Slipyi was tried as a war criminal
and sentenced to life imprison-
ment. At the same time, in a wave
of revulsion against him, Schep-
titsky and their hierarchy, the
lower clergy and rank-and-file
members of the the Uniate

Church threw out all the pro-

Hitler traitors and reformed their
ranks in the Greek Orthodox
Church.

“Cardinal Slipyi was released
by Soviet authorities -in 1963
through agreement with the Vati-
can and left the USSR for Rome.
There, the Pope ordered him to
remain silent in the seclusion of
the Vatican. That led to a furious
outcry from the Organization of

‘Ukrainain ~ Nationalists, which

called Slipyi ‘the greatest Christ-
ian of our century’ and began a
campaign of revilement against
the Pope which is still going on.
_ Presented as a Hero

‘‘Cardinal Slipyi has defied the
Vatican’s request that he keep si-
lent. He has travelled the world as
a propagandist of the OUN. He
has been presented to. Canadian
audiences as a great hero, with rio
mention of his services for Hitler.
And now, at the Sakharov Con-
ference in Rome, Plyusch and
Wiesenthal have joined with this
war criminal, this priest who bles-
sed the killers of Jews, this re-
negade who recruited soldiers for
Hitler’s armiés in the Ukraine.
Now, too, Solzhenitsyn and
Sakharov have lent their names to

a conference on human rights at |

which the main speaker was a war
criminal whose life has been de-
voted to destroying human
rights.”

Among the small-fry at the
Rome conference was an un-
known evangelical pastor, sup-
posedly from the GDR, who
claimed the GDR was persecuting
the Evangelical Church.

‘‘Unfortunately for this pas-.

tor,’ Gordon said, “there are
cordial relations between the
GDR government, the Evangeli-
cal Church, the communities of
Jewish believers and other
groups. In recent months both

Christian and Jewish leaders have

had occasion to testify to that

‘cordiality.””

In his forthcomirg book, Gor-
don announced, he would give the

names of confessed spies and war ;

criminals who the Organization of
Ukrainian Nationalists, Amnesty
International, some prominent
Canadians and others have pub-
licized as persecuted heroes of the
fight for human rights in the
socialist world.

Saini tae AGAIN AIDING “UNITA’’

— e South West Africa Peoples Organizati
(SWAPO) has charged that the South African eee has Ei ‘a
assistance to the so-called UNITA movement, with the intention of
establishing’ an ‘‘independent’’ anti-Communist, anti-MPLA and
anti-SWAPO regime in southern Angola.

South Africa backed Jonas Savimbi during UNITA’s efforts to
subvert Angola’s independence. After the Angolan people with the
assistance of Cuba, Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau and other states, repelled
the UNITA-South African invasion, the South African regime began to
train and arm UNITA and foreign mercenaries at bases in illegally
occupied Namibia.

STRAUSS LAUDS CHILEAN FASCIST JUNTA
BONN — A group of West German clergymen and university pro-
fessors have asked court action against Franz Joseph Strauss, the
Bavarian right-winger and head of the Christian Social Union Party.
The action was demanded after Strauss went to Chile, met with dic-
tator Pinochet and praised the fascist system. The group demanded
that Strauss be brought to trial on charges of “‘aiding and abetting a
terrorist organization — the ruling fascist junta in Chile’.
: West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, told his Social Democra-
tic Party he was “‘sick and tired’’ of Strauss’ support for foreign
right-wing dictatorship. :

PROTEST AGAINST N-BOMB SPREADING

HELSINKI — Thousands marched here last week against the U.S.
decision to produce the neutron bomb and similar protests were held in
the Finnish cities of Turku and Tampere.

Vigorous anti-neutron bomb actions have also been taking place in
the Federal Republic of Germany with trade unions playing a leading
role in the fight to prevent NATO from deploying the weapon on
European soil.

A petition in Austria signed by thousands calls on the government to
take a clear stand against the N-bomb and its deployment, and some
15 ,000 have signed a petition in Switzerland. At a recent conference of
Swiss peace forces a resolution was passed calling on Swiss authorities
to support peace initiatives of the USSR and other states at the Bel-
grade meeting. ; ;

FONDA CHARGES DOW CHEMICAL WITH BLACKMAIL

MIDLAND, : Michigan — Actress Jane Fonda has charged Dow
Chemical : with blackmail when the giant corporation withdrew
financial aid from Central Michigan University as a result of criticism of
Dow and big business made by Fonda in a speech here Oct. 10. She
attacked big business as a tyrannical force and called Dow an ‘‘indust-
rial polluter’’. Dow said it objects to payment of speaker’s fees to.
‘someone advocating the overthrow of our country.”

PERUVIAN WORKERS STAGE: MASSIVE RALLY
LIMA — Some 50,000 workers staged a massive rally here last week
demanding the rehiring of workers fired in the wake of last July’s
general strike. The rally was called by Peru’s General Confederation of
Labor (CGTP). Speakers demanded the lifting of anti-labor official
measures. Some 3,000 leaders and activists were laid off after the July
19 general strike. :

_ LONDON — Thousands marched Sinan a sis
\ y in London in
striking Fire Brigades Union on their way to deliver a petition by 250,000

to Prime Minister Callaghan in support of ?
wee 9 pport of the firemen’s demand for a

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