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_ Communist ban
has Hitler aim

KARLSRUHE|‘economy and the policy of the

Communist counsel Dr. Karl Kaul
showed here last week that the
men who want te ban the Com-
wmUnist . Party of Germany are
_fepresentatives of the monopol-
ists, of the big landowners, the
revanchists and militarists.” _

It was these people, he told’ the
Federal Constitutional Court here,
Who’ ‘in 1933 outlawed the Com-
munist party so that they could
More easily push Germany on to
the path of fascism and war. To

_ Pfove this, Kaul, who is defending

the Communist party against an
attempt to ban it, demanded per-
Mission to call as witnesses the
nost typical representatives of the
©nn government.

ace ile he-read out their names
ina € were gasps in court. The
18 S€S snapped out of their sleepy
pia and began whispering
Kad a each other, visibly
! ssed,

Ooked goa Government lawyers

Here are some of the witnesses

ok Kaul ‘Proposed to call:

verhard Schroeder, minister of
ag etior, who in 1953 and 1954
‘ direc, Member of the board of
ats ors of the big Thyssen steel
nopoly, ;
Victor Emanuel Preusker, direc-

ai of the Frankfurt bank, Harby
an Company. ;

. pbudger Westrick, who is on 14

* boards

.

oe

. of directors.
bi ritz Berendsen, director of the
§ Kloecker concern. _ :
"IMce Otto von Mismarck.

geount Henckel von Donner-

or obert Pferdmenges, the bank-

id member of 20 boards of direct-
Thy Meluding that of the August

Sra Works, said to be the

€st man in Ger
Ta all many.

Dr. Kaul gave the names
0
aoe such proposed witnesses, rep-
fain atives of the handful of
nes 1€s who dominate both the

Bonn government.

Then he wrote out another list
of 34 men. This time high Officials
of the ministry of foreign affairs
who had all been members of the
Nazi party, many of them in lead-
ing positions. :

These included:

Anton Hellmann, former leader
of the Nazi party at Kattowitz.

Werner Metzger, one of the
Nazi party leaders in Karlsruhe. |

Paul Naegeler, leader of the
Nazi party in Barcelona, Spain. .

Fritz Schafer, former SA cap-
tain. . ;

Schrenzel. Bernhardt, who led
the Nazi group at the German
embassy in London.

‘To prove that these men and
the government clique they serve
hhave aggressive aims, Dr. Kaul
then gave lengthy quotations from
recent speeches of various Bonn
ministers when they explained
their program of territorial de-
mands.

Far from questioning these
quotations, the court chairman
taxed the defense counsel with
being the mouthpiece of those
who had given up the idea of
reclaiming territories so long oc-
cupied by Germany.

The defense counsel went on to
denounce Chancellor Adenauer’s
participation in the Atlantic pact
when the president tried to stop
him for raising this question.

But the defense insisted on
demanding that the Communist
party should be given the right to
prove that the Adenauer govern-
ment was carrying out a policy
which was unconstitutional.

It was unconstitutional,. he said,
because in the first place it sought
to revive German militarism, be-
cause in the second place it was
against German unity, and thirdly
‘because it was an obstacle to the
lessening of international tension.

New Communist ban
Rasses in Washington

SEATTLE

the eerough a “sleeper” amendment tacked onto another bill

: legislature

fine

pants of HB 683 by Gover-_
a Arthur B. Langlie means
ye {for the first time in the
©s history a political party
ce been Proscribed in spite of
SPecific constitutional guarantees
g Political freedom. The new
W is certain to face stiff court
ttles,
oe after the governor had
i the bill did it become
ee that . the legislature had
an under the table action

On * 2
an issue it declined to deal}

with in the open. ; ;
afte is how the job was @ne.
973, which forthrightly pro-

Po,

Deity to outlaw the Communist
» Was j ’ ie

“sentati introduced by Repre

“tat ve John L.° Cooney (Demo-

 ™er Spokane) and Claude H. Lori-

Republican, Olympia).
‘ant drew the Re OF inh groups
ere was a general demand
Uch an unconstitutional pro-
: De killed but that public
“Were ©° he held if any attempt
Posal.
Nittee,

HB 573 did die in com-

State ‘em: :
é employees must sign an affi-
davit that they are not members

ade to enact such a pro-/

wae” in the hopper was HB 683].
‘State .c'8inally provided that all

t has outlawed the Communist party in Wash-
©n state by making membership punishable by a $5,000
and five years imprisonment. .

of the Communist party or any
“subversive” organization. It was
introduced by Representatives
Richard Ruoff (Republican, Seattle)
and Raiph Purvis (Democrat, Bre-
merton).

To State Senator Neil J. Hoff
(Republican, Tacoma) goes the
credit of tacking on a “sleeper”
amendment which changed the
character of the bill. His amend-
ment. reads: a ay ore

“The Communist party is a sub-
yersive . organization within the
purview of RCW 9.81 and member
ship in the Communist party is a
subversive activity thereunder.”

To find out what that means
you have to consult the Subver-
sive Activities Act which was SB
387 in the 1951 session of the
state legislature. In signing this
law in 1951 Governor Langlie
vetoed all sections dealing with
the Communist party as such.

Senator Hoff‘s amendment re-
instated the substance of the

sections vetoed in 1951 by de-

claring that Communist party
membership is a “subversive ac-
tivity.” The law punishes such
activity by a five year prison
sentence and a $5,000 fine.

As the mushroom pattern of the atomic explosion ‘disintegrates this radio-active cloud,

extending for miles, drifted eastward across U.S. skies from Nevada. ’

H-bomb tests rate}

LONDON |

to health of worl

A sharp warning of the danger to the world’s health from the continued test-
ing of hydrogen bombs was given last week by the eminent British nuclear physicist,
Prof. Joseph Rotblat, writing in the AtomicScientists’ Journal.

_ He points-out that the British White Paper on Defense is silent on genetic dam-
age from radiation and demands that the goverment publish its data on the dose already

received by the population and the
rate at which it is increasing.
After calculating the effects of
a hydrogen-uranium bomb, Profes-
sor Rotblat says that 75 such
bombs exploded over 30 years
would double the amount of radi-
ation that people would normally
receive. : :
“Rough as this estimate may
be,” he says, “it certainly shows
that we are sailing much closer to
the wind than many of us thought.
“Tt seems more than likely that
should there be a full-scale atomic
war—in which the large stocks of
the bigger and better hydrogen
bombs now manufactured were
used — it would have disastrous
results for the whole world, par-
tisans and neutrals alike, from
the genetic point of view, quite
apart from the§immediate effects.
“But even without a war there
is a probable risk of running into
genetic trouble if the tests of
these weapons. continue at the
present rate.”
_ Professor Rotblat — a one-time
associate of Dr. Penney and Pro-
fessor Oppenheimer at the US.
atomic station at Los Alamos—is
now professor of physics at the
University of London and physi-
‘cist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.
On the U.S. Atomic Energy Com-
mission’s report, Professor Rot-
blat comments: “It is clearly at
pains to allay public fear, but what
it does admit is serious enough.”
It admits that the total amount
of radiation received by the peo-
ple of the U.S.—”and presum-
ably everywhere in the world”

_ all nations who will for ever

‘the point of release of this ter-

—from nuclear detonations is
already equal to the amount they
would naturally receive in a
year—and not to one-third of
it, as stated in the report.

“There is something particular-
ly. sinister about a bomb which is
so designed as to poison the whole
world with radioactivity,” he con-
tinues. ~ .

“We have heard. a great deai
about the cobalt bomb, but we all
believed that it would never be
used. If, our guess is correct the
hydrogen-uranium bomb is a kind
of cobalt bomb: in fact, in some
respects it is even worse.

“This puts an additional evil
aspect on warfare with hydrogen
bombs,’”* he declares.

“It is no longer a question of”
two nations or groups of nations,
devastating each other, but of

U.S. H-bomb advice: -

run for your life’

WASHINGTON |
.U.S. Civil Defense Administra-
tor Val Peterson said last week
people who live in cities must
run for their lives in case of
atomic attack. He said it would
be “suicide” to remain.

“There is no alternative,” Pet-
erson told a Senate Public Works
Subcommittee. “No one near

rific force can survive.”

pay, through disease, malforma-
tion and mental disability, for
our folly.” ‘

The U.S. Atomic Energy Com-
mission’s report recommends vari-
ous means of protection, he says,
‘but hardly deals with the genetic
effect, “from which one cannot see
any escape.”

This is made “even more hor-
rible by the fact that it is not
observed immediately, although it
may spell a disastrous result for
the entire human species some
hundreds of years hence.”

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Strijidom to pack
Supreme Court

CAPETOWN

The Strijdom government is
planning to pack the Supreme
Court, which threw out some of
retired. Premier Malan’s apartheid
legislation as unconstitution, by in-
creasing the number of judges
from five to eleven.

Last week the South African
House. of Assembly, by a vote of
76 to 44, gave third reading to a
‘bill, clauses of which were de-
nounced by opposition parties as
steps toward a police state.

The bill authorizes police to ob-
tain search warrants to enter
premises “where they believe the
security of the state to be en-
dangered” and to enter without
warrants “if they have reason to
believe delay would defeat the
objects of the search.” :

World-wide oil price racket —

bared

A world-wide racket by U.S. oil
companies, acting in conjunction
with the U.S. government, has been
exposed by a United Nations re-
port issued here ;

Prepared by the secretariat of
the UN Economie Commission for
for Europe, the report is entitled
“The Price of Oil in Western
Europe.”

_ “The lion’s share of crude oil
production and refining through-
out the world is.in the hands of
eight major companies — five Am-

by United Nations survey

erican and three Huropean,” says as 9,000 barrels a day,” says the

the report.

“The U.S. price of oil” is shown
as. the keynote of the world-wide
structure of crude oil prices which
are maintained at a high level
despite the volume and cheapness
of Middle East production.

’ In 1950 the average daily output
of U.S. oil wells was 31 barrels
a day.

“In Venezuela, by contrast, the
daily average was over 200 barrels
and in the Middle East some 5,000
barrels, with production from

some Kuwait wells rising as high

report.

“The auestion is why, since Mid-
dle East production costs so little,
it does not bring about a decline
in price and drive out a large pro-
portion of higher cost American
production?” ot eae
“And the. report gives this
answer: “The price is tied to that
in the’ United States.” =
__ As an example, the report
cites the U.S.-controlled Aramco

Oil Company in Saudi Arabia

which is making a profit of $1.40
on every barrel of crude oil it
is selling at $1.75.

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