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PANDEMONIUM BREAKS A-Bombs In
OUT IN PARIS COURT
President Replies To Critics
Washington, February 23, President Truman said losi night. "I any s.o.b. thinks he can get me to discharge any member of my staff or Cabinet by some smart aleck statement over the air, he is mistaken."
In the sharpest language he has
Paris, February 22. White-haired Nikola Antonov, one of three, wit? nosses in the Kravchenko libel case wanted by Moscow for "war crimes," told the crowded court today that he was Stalin's prisoner for nine yours and was once beaten insensible by the Russian socret police.
The witness described Victor Kravchenko, author of the anti-Soviet best seller "I Chose Freedom" as a man of "high character."
M. Andrel Vasilkov, the next
U.S. Possession
Munich, February 23. One of nye men on trini here on charge of spying on the American occupation Army carried A document reporting that, the United States had made 600 atomic Bombs but lost one of them, a German policeman testi- fled today.
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policeman told United States Military Com- mission that he found · document among papars which the Polish defendant, Teodore Brendlelorz. Was carrying in a woman's hand-
bag
The report on the atom bomb said in parts "Amert. Can units in Western, Gar many have a different coun- tenance since the Berlin altuation. The United States
RED ARMY WOULD
GET SUPPORT IN QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
FRANCE THOREZ
Paris, February 22,
If the Saviot Ammy should occupy Paris in any futuro war it would get the same popular co-operation as it did in Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia. Maurice Thorez, French Communist leader, made
this statement to an emergency meeting of the French Communist Party's Central Com- mittee;
He said he made it in reply,
to questions asked by "enemies of the (people, seeking to em- barrass us.'
He said: "Since the question
Today's session opened with tanging quietly at the witness an accusation by Kravchenko's bar waiting to be aworn in.
Madame Antonove described counsel that the Kremlin and
deli-the experiences of her arrest in Lits Paris Embassy are
the Soviet Union berately interfering with the case by demanding that France witness, came into court on cut- the Bround-ver-three witness 19hest-tat-thawed att has been put ,,,1 let us reply. dont vigorously defended Major-trial as war criminals.
members of his family had been General flurry H. Vaughan, hla Tile presiding Judge, M. Henri killed or Imprisoned by the So- military akle, at a dinner honour-
Durkheim, said the Soviet re-viet secret police. lug General Vaughan.
quest, banded in last night, la The court adjourned until to- beyond the court's · competence..morrow.-Reuter, Kravchenko himself, who how
General Vaughan bad been erl- ticized by Drew Pearson, ratio commentator and columnist, Leren ill. was, in court again to-
cause he recently necepted a de- corntion from President Peron of Argentina.
Mr. Truman spoke at the Aring- Navy Country Club at Arlington, Virginia, at a banquet given by the Reserve Officers Association in General Vaughan's honour.
Earlier speakers had mention. od Pearson's criticism of Gen- ora! Vaughan. Following
in defenen General Vaughan at his last news conference, Mr. Truman said that no pollster or anyone else is go- ing to influence hits elections of his Cabinet or members of his He alone would RDY
staff.
of
changing of his administration. Attacks on General Youghnñ ac- tually were aimed at him as Pre- Bident, he said.-Associated Press.
Baron Vanishes IN Vienna
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emy.
A heated argument between the Judge and inwyers for both sides ended when Antonov enter-
ed the witness box. During his yenis
Soviet concentration In samps, he had been forelbly fert. Rept for six days in a small un- li relf hardly
move andt able to Then put under a powerful light during questioning, he stated,
ןזיז
bombs. An
atomic
bomb has been lost in the United States."—United Press.
Britain Rejects Berlin Report
London, February 22.
Another time he was subject Britain regards the roport of the Security Council
to the 'monkey" treatment.
Nine meu fred questions at klov one after the other, some serious He had to - and some silly. swer right away.
cainps,
Kravchenko's lawyer sald he would produce special currency notos used in Russian concentra- tion camps to show the size of the prison system.
"Neutrals Committco" on the Berlin currency doadlock as unacceptable as a basis for discus- sion between the four great powers, a Foreign Office spokesman said today.
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Soviet war and ic In these cor-12.30 p.m.-Daily Programme Bunzarry. dilions the Soviet Army, defend 12.84 p.m.--"From the Filmr.“ ing the people's cause and tho cause of Socialism, was led to drive
ou! aggressors from our anit, could the workern and the people of France behave differ ently toward the Soviet Army than the workers and people at Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia and so forth?".
Therez said the Soviet Union nover would nor could be found In the position of an aggressor against any other country.
"The Facts"
in, which is no longer valid.
That directive, he recalled, facts and not an hypotheses.
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"A country of Socialism cu- He had been asked to com- Committee" was working on the
four not by of a directive; the the basis
*clefinition practice tho a statement in When he said that a 1,000,000 ment on
of aggression and war prisoners were held in one group Soviel Communist newspaper powers' directive of August 30 polley of concentration
Judge "Prevda" that Russia had ac- to the Military Governors in Ber-which is the deed of imperialist 10 merpool
powers. We take our stand oa Durkheim asked him through an cepted the Committee's report interpreter to confirm that this as a basis, while the Western
was based on the administra was what he meant.
The powers had rejected it.
tlon of the
"The present facts are: active co-operation of the French Gov- contents of the Committee's re-
power basis. have Bort
nol yet been The spokesman said the Com-ernment in the aggressive.policy the four mittee had been instructed not of the Anglo-Saxon imperialisms. published, nor have powers replies to the "Neu-only to work on the basis of the the presence of a foreign general August 30 directive but also to staff at Fontainebleau, the trang- rals Committee."
The repurt is now in the hands take account of subsequent events formation of our country
French overseas Vienna, February 22,
in Berlin. of the Security Council, which The Austrian Press Agency
If Beriln had not been spilt, bases of aggression against the has to decide on the next step; he claimed, the experts of the USSR and countries of popular reported from Linz today that Baran Eugen Pott,
would democracy," Committee" 1 former
nobody places the report on the
1 had
Lusk. far agent
Warner Brothers Witness said that one series of agenda of the Security Council. They would have been able to
much easier
The Central Committee session (American) Films and the Dumps of the Baltle-White Sen it
They might then be allowed
was held in secret and Thore work on the basin of a single statement was released in canal construction team heaps is important to recali cer-Berlin and there would also the
the Pont American Arms Arm in
banking and credit system in Zagreb, disappeared
1,000,000 prisoners.
Inform of a communique-by the He denied Feb-
eCommunist accusations made against him in tain developments
Pariy, had hoon
No further ruary 17 after getting into
the Soviet note. He said
he taken place in Berlin since the pen for less dimculty over the details of the meating were dis- 11.16 Weather Beport sad? Clare! luxurious car belong to the
of guarantees of non-closed.--United Press. came to Paris from the French appointment of the. Yugoslav Legation.
Neutrals question
discrimination in the currency occupation Zone of Germany, Committee," the spokesman cald change-over and in the supply
an
Antonov said he had been sentenced to 15 years but had, benutted from en amnesty. He had been arrested three
times and spent mino years in The spokesman said that if "Neutrals
Soviet concentration camps.
where
which
his case had been ex- On the very day after *Its
DP of credits to all sectors of the
amined by three Commissions-pointment, the Soviet authori-city.-Router. one of which Included Russian ties set up a "puppet Magistrat
officers.
He had been recognised as a displaced person, he
the
near the he
genuine added.
The agency said that Baron former Polt, who, was also a general agent in Zagreb for the Austrian Styer Works, was seen entering the car, which carried the diplomatic emblem af Yugoslav Republic, indway station since when had disappeared without trace,
Two men, driving in the same car, had called previously at the Baron's home and had been told his whereabouts by his wife, the agency said.-Reuter. ',
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During the Committee's dis- cussions, further measures had been taken by the Soviet
POPE'S REST
Vatican City, February 22. The Pope is taking a au-
short thorities to complete the split rest after his intense activity in between the Soviet and Western the past week. sectors of the city. Thus, the The Pope will be 73 on March Inapokesman sald, the "Neutrals' 2.—Reuter.
the court s few minutes later and Kravchenko and M. Andre Wurmser, one of the defendants, elmos! came to blows
about questions put to Antonav.
Gendarmes barred the gang- way between the two men who shouted Insults each other in French and Russian. Kravchenke shouted that he wanted to gel from the French authorities in Germany all the documents con-
cerning Antonov and "stop this consedly by those provocateurs."
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Pandemonium broke out again when Maitre Izard announced that the plaintiff would get all the documents
about Antonov
from the French Zone and put them before the court.
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