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Mrs,

Martha Dodd Stern is shown here with her father,

i : illi from
1933 to itiam E. Dodd, U.S. ambassador to Germany

Sterns bare story

of FBI persecution

Dodd, U.S. ambas-

to ga,° Germany from 1933

Stibeq yond her husband, de-

fantacs: ~o' TOS’ charges as “the

'¢ inventions of a Holly.

Parca] ‘mMposier, a part and
: of his lurid career.”

ig waht Progressive background
One 5 Nown, open to every-
“lume Teview,” they state,
they 1.24ing the various causes

ay
ing. have Supported and add-

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te

tag’ are proud to be in the
Droy °n of protest and dissent,
tively ° Nave participated ac-
the entire the New Deal, in
etfers ire Roosevelt era when
Mthbacest democrats like
8d go 0°? William E. Dodd
Stang . “TS had the courage to
of fag euinst the early growth
Men; .. > to defy the appease-
lo ,,.21 the state department,
‘livin c American democracy
torce Changing and growing

ear Statement continues:
licg “* these beliefs and activi-
Sive, } 2nd all other progres-
@ve been hounded and

=
_ “cuted for years.

liste’ have been called names,
by h aS subversives, followed
ta.. © FBI, had our passports
away, our telephones
€q .- 4nd our mail interfer-
With. 3
hon William E. Dodd, Jr., was
leq very early by being
ites bya Congressional com-
laseice , ‘a premature  anti-
Bo ‘St’ was thrown out of his
blag nment job, placed on the
Cklist, forced into unem-

PRAGUE
“Jend

ployment, frustration and early
ate statement describes how
they emigrated to Mexico in
1953 and were followed there
by the FBI and Mexican secret
a the last months,” they
charge, ‘certain officials of the
Mexican government openly
admitted that the U.S. State
Department and the FBI in
Mexico had urged them to re-
move us from the country, a
blatant example of US. inter-
ference in the affairs of a
foreign country.”

rial, they arranged to be-
come Paraguayan citizens and
obtained Paraguayan pass-

orts.

‘ Noting that the FBI’s “ruth-
less persecution of all those
who oppose its Gestapo meth-
ods results in the unemploy-
ment of its victims, their 1m-
prisonment and often their
death,” the statement déclares:

“This hounding into silence,
illness and death of so many
decent people is finally turn-
ing the stomachs of most Am-
ericans.

“No wonder the Supreme
Court has made recent deci-
sions to challenge and curtail
the FBI’s independent power,
its conirol, above and outside
the law, of certain sections of
the government and the courts
of the U.S.” :

The statement concludes with
the Sterns’ charge that the ac-
cusations made against ‘hem
are part of the FBI’s attempt
to push legislation through
Congress circumventing Su-
preme Court rulings.

LETTER PUBLISHED

Hungarian emigre
leader goes home

One of Hungary’s leading emigre “freedom fighters,’

return home.

He is believed to be already in Budapest. “I

MM

thing,” he said in letters to his emigre colleagues.
; £

Reports es
i ungarian di
me the October events of
last year Szabo joined Social-
Democratic leader Anna Keth-
ly in founding the so-called
“Revolutionary Council of
Hungarians in Strasbourg.

A former deputy of the
Smallholders’ party, Szabo had
been living in exile in Vienna
for the past two years after
spending six years in jail in

ry.
feng sc! to friends dated
September 7, said:

“I know that I am _ causing
a lot of dissillusion to you,
my friends, by telling you that
when you read these lines I
shall be on my way back to
Hungary.

“ft have reached the conclu-
sion that the Western powers
have betrayed and sold us.
Whatever happens in the fu-
ture we cannot expect any help
for our cause.

"It is my conviction that the
best way to help our unhappy
nation is by assisting in its
reconstruction, at home.”

The news of Szabo’s de-
cision has spread alarm and

dismay in Hungarian emigre /

circles. The documents he was

Oxford invites
Soviet students

MOSCOW
‘Sir Patrick Reilly, British
ambassador, called on the rec-
tor of Moscow University with
an invitation for 50 Russian
students and professors to at-
tend. an Oxford University
summer course next year.

The course will be on Brit-
ish life and literature in the
20th century and it is expected
that the 50 wil be made up of
40 students and: ten members
of the teaching staff.

Conscripts arrested,
won't accept Speidel

PARIS
French army _ authorities
have arrested 20-year-old

Henri Samson for refusing to
serve under General Speidel,
Hitler’s former general, who is
now NATO Central European
Land Forces commander.
Fifteen years ago Samson’s
father was taken away by the
Nazi and tortured. He died in
2 Nazi concentration camp.
Samson is the fifth French
conscript to be arrested for
refusing to serve under Speidel
because their relatives were
martyred by the Nazis.

reported to have taken with
him were thought to be of a
most compromising character,
not only for counter-revolu-
tionaries abroad, but particu-
larly for their associates still
in Hungary.

LONDON

> Miklos Szabo, has decided to

am sure I am doing the right

om Vienna last week said that Szabo was understood to have been a passenger
plomatic car which crossed the border, Budapest-bound, on September 8.

In an attempt to offset: the
effects of Szabo’s action, some
emigre groups are spreading
the story around Vienna that
Szabo must have been a “Hun-
garian secret police spy” all
the time.

Gomulka says break

now belongs to past

BELGRADE

Wladislaw Gomulka, secretary of the Polish United Workers
party, told Yugoslav workers last week that the people of his

country were building socialism in their own way. —

Polish way.”

Gomulka described the Com-
inform break leading to an
interruption in relations be-
tween Yugoslavia and Poland
as “harmful to the whole work-
ers’ movement.”

The Yugoslay masses had
shown admirable firmness and
the break now belonged to the
past,
had begun, which found pow-
erful expression at the 20th
congress of the Soviet Com-
munist party.

He added: “This has laid
the foundations for the de-
velopment of socialism in ac-
cérdance with conditions which
are specific for each nation
and country.

“The solidarity of all nations
striving for peace is indispen-
able today, in view of the
failure of all efforts*so far to
find a solution to the problem
of disarmament, to prohibit the
manufacture, tests and use of
nuclear weapons.”

Gomulka: went on to say
that his party had admited
openly “the errors committed
in its work and to correct them
when necessary.

In| Warsaw last week, where
he talked with Gomulka be-
fore the latter left for Yugo-
slavia, Aneurin Bevan, British
Labor MP, said, “I was deeply
impressed by Gomulka’s sin-
cerity and frankness.”

(Certain “undesirable as-
pects” in Poland did not,. in
Bevan’s opinion, “flow from
Gomulka’s own _ principles,”
but from, “historical limita-
tions.”

(Bevan’s view was that it
was clear that the “Polish ex-
periment” was free to develop
along its own lines. He de-
nounced those“ Western propa-
gandists”, who represent the
process of democratization in
the Soviet Union and other
socialist countries as evidence
of the “dissolution and disin-
tegration of Soviet power.”)

A process of revival”

“the

Doctrine could
spark new war

WARSAW

Application of the LEisen-
hower Doctrine in the Middle
East could cause incidents
which might result in a third
world war, Aneurin Bevan said
here last week.

“All the Eisenhower Doc-
trine does,” Ke said, “is to bring
the U.S. into immediate col-
lision with the Soviet Union.”

The foreign secretary in the
British Labor party’s shadow
cabinet emphasised. there could
be no solution for the Middle
East except by collaboration
with the Soviet Union. “There,”
he said, “we have a great dif-
ference between ourselves and
the United States.”

res |

Governor promises

to work with Jagan

GEORGETOWN

Opening the new British
Guiana legislative council Gov-
ernor Sir Patrick Renison said
he would “work eagerly and
wholeheartedly” » with Dr.
Jagan, leader of the People’s
Progressive party.

Dr. Jagan is minister for
trade and industry in the new
government and will act as
first minister. His former gov-
ernment was turned out by
British troops and warships
four years ago on the charge of
trying to “set up a Communist
state.”

In theselections last month
the People’s Progressive party
won a sweeping majority of the
elected seats, and took office
with the announced determina-
tion to use the limited con-
stitutional powers to serve the
people.

September 20, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3