Charge U.S.
lied about
deportation

NEW YORK

The Mexican Department of
Migration has stated that there
is no record that it ordered the
expulsion .of Morton Sobell
from Mexico.

A letter to this effect, on
official migration department
stationery, has been filed with
the U.S. Court of Appeals by
attorneys for Morton Sobell
to prove that the prosecution
lied: when it claimed Mexico
had deported Sobell.

The new evidence, in addi-
tion to previous’ documenta-
tion refuting the prosecution,
was cited as further reason
why a hearing must be held.
The Appeals Court, now con-
sidering an appeal by Sobell
for a hearing to prove his al-
legations, was asked to in-
clude the Mexican letter in its
deliberations.

Sobell, who maintains his
innocence, is imprisoned in;
Alcatraz on a 30-year sen-
tence for alleged conspiracy to
commit espionage. He charges
that the prosecution illegally
kidnapped him from Mexico,
and then, to make him appear
a fugitive, said he had been
deported by Mexico.

The letter was written to a
Mexican attorney on March
9 “by consent of the head of
the department” by Migration
Inspector Jose Perez. It was
forwarded to Sobell’s attorneys
in New York by Sobell’s: Mexi-
ean attorney, Dr. Luis Sanchez
Ponton. :

The letter states: “I wish to
advise you that in the files
pertaining to Morton Sobell,
United States citizen, there is
no record to the effect that
this department has ordered
his expulsion from the coun-
try.”

In filing the new evidence
with the court, Sobell’s at-
torneys said the letter proves
Sobell was not legally deport-
ed by Mexico, as U.S. Attorney
Pauu Williams claimed in re-
cent argument before the Ap-
peals Court.

Sobell’s attorneys told the
court that according to law
“any removal-by the authori-
ties of the government of Mex-
ico must be authorized, by and
reflected in the files” of the
migration department, which
is part of the secretariat of
gobernacion (department of in-
terior).

They said that the letter
demonstrates that Sobell. “was
neither deported nor in any
fashion expelled” by Mexico.

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By ALAN BROWN

NEW YORK

In Washington, D.C., at this

moment is. a man awaiting

trial. He is to be tried on 13

counts, each of which carries
a 20-year sentence.

His name is John W. Powell,
journalist, 36 years old.

His wife, Sylvia, also faces
trial and a 20-year sentence,
as .does their friend Juilan
Schuman, also a journalist.

They are charged with sedi-
tion, in that they published
articles which were not in
agreement with the U.S. State
Department’s views at the time
of the Korean War.

John W. Powell is a man
who desperately needs help.

His story actually starts in
1919—two years before he was
born, when his father, J. B.
Powell, started a journal call-
ed the China Weekly Review.

The Review was published
in Shanghai, and was recog-
nized for years as a source of
authoritative information on
what was happening in China,
and in Asia.

In 1926, J. B. Powell was
boycotted by the U.S. and
British advertisers in Shang-
hai and expelled from the Am-
erican Chamber of Commerce
there.

He supported the Chinese
national movement.
Later, when the Japanese

army invaded China, he was
brutally maltreated. Both his
feet were amputated -and he
did not long survive the or-
deal. :

His son stayed on in China,
continued the magazine and
covered the Chinese civil war.
Thus the Review continued
under his editorship and came
more and more to oppose Am-
evican intervention on behalf
of Chiang Kai-shek.

It later opposed American
intervention in Korea.

Then in... 1958.-.the. U.S.
State Department banned the
Review from the U.S. mails,
and thus, deprived of its main

Freedom to report
treason trial issue

source of revenue, the Review
had to close down.

Powell returned to the U.S.

On arriving he was met by
representatives of the US.
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), who offered to pay for
military’ information about
China. He refused to comply,
was hauled before a Congres-

sional committee, and finally ~

put up for trial for sedition
for his reporting of the Kor-
ean war.

On September 27, 1954, Pow-
ell was ordered to attend a
Senate sub-committee, one of
the most terrible ordeals he
had to undergo.

Witnesses were paraded for
two days through the court
room to “prove” that Powell
was a “murderer”, an “agent
of foreign power.”

Yes or No answeres were
demanded to all _ questions,
many of them of the “Have
you stopped beating your
wife?” variety. He was asked
about his employees (which
of them belonged to a “Com-
munist-controlled trade un-
ion?”) and whether he fol-
lowed the party line.”

Powell himself was never a
Communist. He was a journal-
ist doing a job. Which possib-
ly explains why he left China
for the U.S. and did not con-
tinue with the Review in an-
other form.

Through it all he remained
quiet and outwardly calm. Af-
ter the proceedings he gave
a press conference, at which
he answered many of the poli-
tical questions which he had
refused to answer in court.

“I believe the basic issue
is my freedom to report first-
hand observations and express
views critical of our present
China policy,’ writes Powell.

This, in fact, is the “sedi-
tion” with which Powell, his
wife and his friends are ac-
cused of — views which are
contrary to those of the all-
powerful China Lobby in the
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Peace Council
sends appeal
to end tests

An appeal for an end, to the
testing of nuclear weapons has
been addressed by British Co-
lumbia Peace Council to Brit-
Harold
Macmillan, U.S..President

Dwight Eisenhower and So-
viet Premier Nicolai Bulganin.

ish Prime Minister

In its letter to the three
heads of state, the council
urges immediate conclusion of
an international agreement
through the United Nations to
prohibit the tests.

“We share the profound con-
cern ‘of the people and goy-
ernment of Japan who have
appealed time and time again
for a cessation of these dan-
gerous experiments,” the letter
says.

The council plans to hold a
conference to discuss means
of bringing public opinion in
this province to bear on the
Canadian and other govern-
ments in order, to end the
tests. The conference, to which
all supporters are invited, will
be held on Sunday, May 5,
from 1 to 4 p.m., in Pender
Auditorium Canteen.

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