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Dismissal of militia Wred at Polish trial —

By GORDON CRUICKSHANK

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t . tat for ontor Alfons Leman rose to his feet to announce ding complaints from Poznan citizens, his office

Waffen SS officers with their former ranks in the West Ger- man Wehrmacht is: a new threat to peace and security.

The West German Social Democratic_party is the latest of many organizations to pro- test the decision.

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nan Agricultural .College, the prison and militia station, to obtain arms to carry out vio- lent attacks on public build- ings, and to plunder shops and steal property.”

The judge in this case is Wieslaw Cielimski, 40. He told me that he studied law at Warsaw University, has been a judge since 1939 and has been in Poznan since 1945.

In an interview, he explain- ed to me that the procedure in the present trial is In ac- cordance with the 1950 penal code. The presiding judge conducts the trial, allowing prosecutors and defense coun- cillors to interrogate the accus- ed and the witnesses. :

Prisoners can plead guilty, not guilty, partly guilty, or they need not plead at all. When they come for trial, all available facts about them, 1n- cluding previous offences, are placed before the court before the proceedings begin. :

The two assessors in the trial are Jan Dehmel, formerly a joiner but now in the minis- try of wood technology, and Leonard Kazimierezak, tech- nician in a machine-making factory.

ip ae explained that there are 800 assessors in the Poz- nam district, elected by the workers in the factories _and the trade union organizations. They can play an active part in the trial, interrogating pris- oners, and have power to veto a sentence.

Verdict in the trials was eX- pected to be handed down Thursday or Friday this week.

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As in the thirties, the New West German Wehrmacht was trained under the guise of a “police” force, shown here

parading in West Berlin last year.

The new Wehrmacht will be armed with atomic cannon,

supplied by the U.S. This picture shows the atomic

weapons (cannon shown at top) being delivered to West Germany

Munich wont recruit for new Wehrmacht

By PHYLLIS ROSNER

BERLIN

Munich City Council has decided not to help recruit-

_ing for the new West German Wehrmacht and rejected

a motion to allocate 54,000 marks for this purpose. The decision — first of its kind taken. by an important West German city — was adopted after a heated debate

Six seats won by

Swedish Communists

STOCKHOLM

The Swedish Communist party increased its represen- tation from five to six seats in the recent general election. The Social Democrats again emerged as_ the country’s strongest party and with the Agrarians will continue the coalition government which has been in office since 1951. Final results were: Social Democrats 108, Agrarians 20, Liberals 58, Conservatives 39,

Communists 6.

by 31 to 20 votes.

Councillors from- the Social Democratic, Free Democratic, Bavarian and Communist par- ties voted in favor.

Another Bavarian town, Penzberg, has banned all propaganda for the Wehr-

macht. The council reached this decision following a long debate, in which Social Demo- cratic councillors as well as the two Communists (who are still in office although the Communist party has been banned by. the Adenauer re- gime) -expressed their sym- pathy with young West Ger- mans refusing army service.

OCTOBER 5, 1956 —

Left party

wins election in Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN

The People’s National Move- ment, modelled on the British Labor party, emerged from the Trinidad election last week with 13 out of 24 seats in the Legislative Council. Its leaders, Dr. Eric Williams and former Test cricketer Learie Constantine were among those elected.

The big business-supported Political Progress party, whose leader, Albert Gomez, had boasted that he would be the next premier of Trinidad, failed to win a single seat. Gomez was minister of indus- try and commerce in the for- mer government, a coalition of. various small parties.

The People’s Democratic party, which is basically a Hindu religious organization, won five seats, while the Brit- ish Empire Workers, Citizens, Peasants and _ Ratepayers’ Home Rule party, led by Uriah Butler, which stood second to the Political. Progress party in the former coalition govy- ernment, won only three seats.

The Trinidad Labor party, the feeble rump of this oil-rich island’s oldest party, won two seats, and one Seat went to an independent.

Dr. Williams, a Negro doc- tor of philosophy of Oxford University, is the author of The Negro in the Caribbean, a book that has been widely attacked, among the charges being one that it was Com- munist inspired.

His party won the election in face of the hostility of the Roman Catholic Church.

Among the planks in the party’s program are self-gov- ernment. for . Trinidad and dominion status for a British Carribean Federation in five years time.

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