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VOL. IT. No. 46

LEIS G Ger,

ovember 14, 1952

PRICE TEN CENTS

British opinion

|deplores Criminal | Lest we forget. oe

Code amendments

TORONTO : Some of the proposed amendments to Canada’s Criniinal Code

‘4S contained in Bill H-8 “are broad paving stones on the road to ‘ the gallows,” states a report of the National Council of Givil Lib- : erties of Great Britain. The NCCL was asked its views on Bill H-8 by the League for Democratic Rights which is conducting a National campaign on the issue, eas The league, which studied re- ‘ pressive legislation that has been 2 passed or is pending in Canada, : Australia, New Zealand and South é Affrica, declared that some of the :

sections of Bill H-8 relating to . treason force the conclusion that “the Canadian hangman will have to work overtime” if they are per- { mitted to become law.

{ “It is to be regretted,” states the - ' league’s report, “that the drastic , ‘ amendments to the criminal law : ' of Canada contained in Bill H-8 : ; Why Britons say , are part and parcel of a redraft of the whole Criminal Code. They Go Home, Yanks are thus submerged in a quantity : ; : ; of unobjectionable, innocuous and 3 page 4 |

purely formal provisions, and are

; consequently liable to escape no-

What’s behind tice. This kind of subterfuge is

to be deplored. Proposals to am-

y end legislation in ways calculated . attack on CBC? to undermine the civil liberties of by ° the subject should be exposed to MA Hal Miller the clear light of day.” ee, : . E page 9 The league’s warning was under- Seren scored by LDR chairman Robert F C. Roberts during his recent cross- 7 country tour. Roberts warned at ; acts in the public meetings held in cities : across Canada that Bill H-8 could dq Rosenberg case : :

become law before Christmas un- less’ Canadians ‘compelled ~ with-

\ page 10 drawal of the proposed amend-

ments.

LONDON

Choosing as his moment Britain’s Remembrance Day for the dead of two world wars, West Germany’s war chief, Dr. Theodor Blank, this week announcéd details of a new German Army with 22,000 officers.

S. POST-WAR POLITICIAN” WE MUST HAVE A STRONG GERMANY AS ABULWARK AGAINST COMMUNISM 00.” |

PRE-WAR POLITICIAN “THAT'S WHAT 1 TOLD THEM TOO, 010 Boy...”

They will comprise 40 generals, 250 colonels, 900 lieutenant-colonels, 2,000 majors, 6,300 captains and 12,300 first and second lieutenants.

The statement was made in a broadcast over West Germany‘s biggest radio network, the North- West German Radio Corporation.

Dr. Blank presented it as West Germany's “con- 4 © tribution to the European Army.” MATTE ds : De : The plan has been worked out by Dr. Blank Some AL, ‘ fy «after consultation with two of Hitler's former gen- — i} ki erals, General Speidel and General Heusinger, and is to come into operation immediately the “European Army Treaty’ has been ratified.

The army will take nine or 12 months to set up. There will be about 80,000 NCO’s and “‘long-

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