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RUSSIAN
FORCES
By JOHN RETTIE
Moscow, Jan. 23.
A new drive is under way within the Soviot armed forces to intensify Communist indoctrination and
suppress "bourgeois iäzulogy hostile to the Soviet Union."
There has been not tho, mallelous wiles of reactionary slightest suggestion in the Army foreign propaganda and educate and Navy nowpapers here of Soviet people in spirit of any coon protests, mutinles or patriotic love for their country desertions in the Soviet armed and loyalty to the principles of forces in Hungary or anywhere proletarian internationalism." else.
picture of in- tensification of ideological In- doctrination emerges from reports on Communist Party and Komsomol (Communist Youth League) conferences held in various units.
But the Soviet Army news paper Red Star hos found it necessary to warn its readers against the malicious wiles of rensionary foreign propaganda" and to demand "loyalty to the
principles of proletarian
Internationalism."
it
IL
ACHIEVEMENTS
WDS
similar
SEVERELY CRITICISED
training
tho
The newspaper Soviet Fleel, in a report of a Komsomol con- this "duty to the ference in one of the Navy's international proletariar" which, higher technical training the Soviet Communist Party institutes, noted that "particip- has repeatedly declared, made ants of the conference severely néeersary ta crush the criticised shortcomings in Hungarian rebels and "defend political
of future the achievements of socialism" officers' with the might of the Red "It must not be forgotten that Army.
any weakening in our militant Any doubis
about the agliation and propaganda," it "principles of proletarian added, "weakens the struggle ternationalism" In
army against bourgeois and petly could obviously. Therefore, not bourgols
Ideology which be tolerated.
our country from penetrates The chief
quality abroad. Questions put by young demanded of Soviet servicemen, people
ПOL be left Red Star declared in a leading unanswered." article, is "profound ideological
Komsomol pro Party which conviction,
means un-pagandists must, if necessary, shakable faith in the justness resolutely bogin argumenis,
moral
ot
the
In-
Red Star indicated
that the new drive is to be carried out at a mainly by junior officers, as the people most able to exert a direct influence on the troops. CONVICTIONS
must
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Prague, Jan. 28. Czechoslovak Government delegation including savon top- ranking officials, headed by President
Villam Zapotocky, left here by special train today for Moscow on a five-day visit to the Soviet Union,
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Boy Kidnapped
Unknown
Anglo-Jordan Talks Next Month
Life Sentence
DEATH PENALTY
WENT IN 1944
Rome, Jan. 23.
A move to abolish life imprisonment is slowly gaining support in Italy; where the Penal Code is - already among the world's most lenient in its attitude to murder.
The
death penalty Was are expected to ask Parliament abolished in Italy after the to debate the question. In the collapse of farciam In 1944. But near future. In addition, they even during the Fascist regimo, say that they will ask Italy's only those found guilty of newly
up Constitutional
concerning the Consitution) for a ruling.
particularly atrocious murders Court (which deals with were condemned to death, and matters executed by a fring spund
Now, itio only place on
the Italian, peninsula where a
Public Debate
person çin be condemned to
death legally in peacetime is At a public debulo in Venico the Vatican City. The Vatican's recently on whether or not life Code lays down that anyone imprisonment "who makes attempts upon the abolished, the life or liberty of the Supreme jurists, lawyers, prison Pontiff is liable to the death penalty.
should
be
of
30-Year Sentence
majority
governors, doctors and priesta who attended agreed that life
19 д imprisonment
vindictive rother
than a re-educational penalty and moved that it be
Now, a growing body of abolished. Italians, led by a distinguished lawyer and Senator, Glovanni Persico, are calling
for the
מ!
The abolitionists have also organised discussions Talevision programmes and in
abolition of lifo imprisonment the newspapers.
tvant
the
for
any
im
cases. mentally
well. They maximum enience
They argue that: crime to be 50 years.
There are at present 803 life serving terms of They claim that fe
Comment in Italy. At least prisonment is
contrary to one 30 per cent are mental of the Articles (No. 27) of Some were
mad or postwar Constitutical, backward when they committed which sent them others for life; the of become mentally unhinged in
prison.
Amman, Jan, 23. Mr Suleiman
the Italy's Nabulsi, Prime Minister of Jordan, sald which lays down that the LAW the crime today that a special committee should not aim at vengeance, to prison has been established to
the re-education open but at The delegation, which also
negotiations on the termination convicts, included Premier Antonin
of the Anglo-Jordandan Treaty,
Says Senator Persico: "Can Siroky, and Foreign
In addition, the majority of Minister,
Warsaw, Jan. 24.
Anyone claim that 0 lio
them
from Vaclav David, were
The Prime Minister said yes- prisoner will have the
stomach suffer people kidnapped political and economic
the 12-year-old son of Boleslav orday that negotiations to end or the will to allow himself to prison diets and partly by what desire ulcers, partly caused by their Pincofaki, President of the Pax the cussions with Soylet leaders.
treaty, evacuate British be re-educated? Why should
Venice at the Catholic Organisation ori
forces and liquidate British he, The delegation also included Wednesday and Inter in the day bases would begin next month,
when the only rights he participants
Forum described as "excessivo still has are to eat, sleep and brooding on their state." Communist Party chlef, Antonin demanded over the clephone Under the 1948 treaty, which die?" Novotny, first
Vice-Premier that Placot pay a ransom of was due to
run
1068, Kopecky, Vaclav
But tho Italian Court of Defence nearly US$250,000 for his return. Britain pays about £1
Hands Chained £12,500,000 Minister
General
Cassation, Italy's Bohumir
Supreme sterling annually 4 Jordan. Appeal Tribunal, to whom the Lomsky, Foreign Trade Minis-
When Milito, who rushed into a Britain has troops and an air question was submitted, found moved from one prison to an-
life prisoner Richard Dvorak, and balftion immediately after Placetski a dozen other dignitaries. They reported the dropper Pack base in the kingdom. Egypt, that life imprisonment was not other, he travels in a steel- Syria and Saudi Arabia agreed "incompatible with the Italian lined train cell, with a barred were expected to arrive
In od on Wednesday night to give in Catro last Saturday to re-Constitution," line,China Moscow tomorrow, France- any information concerning their place Britain's financial aid to
Presse.
investigations---France-Presse, Jordan-Reuter,
of the cause of the Communist refute in public and convincing- Party and unbounded loyalty ly show the harm of any in- to the ideas
Marxism correct expressions of opinion," Leninism.
UNIT COMMANDERS Red Star sald that speakers Communist Party con- ference In an unnamed unit attitude called for "a more attentive to Marxist-Leninist teaching on the part of young "The ideological conviction of Communists, and especially Soviet officery is the result of unit commanders," the tremendous work carried on This drive for intensified in- by the Communist Party Indoctrination Ja part of educating our
military wider campaign in all spheres personnel,"
the newspaper of activily to tighten up admitted frankly. It is there-ideological discipline and nip fore now
the officers turn to in the bud any deviation from "xert ideological influence on the strict party subordinate to increase their Mail Special. "political
Bod
their
"feciing of personal rt- sponsibility for carrying оці both their military duty to their country and their international duty."
Red Star told officers tha! "profoundly under- Prat ant noble
they must sland the character of the class tasks of the armed forces of the Soviet Union,"
Il cited as an example A young officer who, IL said.
"never avolds unhealthy
attitudes or incorrect interpreta- tlong of any politic questions,
and
explains such questions from position or Marxism- Leninism and social ideology."
Ideologien conviction, it con- tinued, forms the "basis of an Intolerant attitude the easi appearance of bourgeois ideology hostile to us or to distortion of Marxist-Leninist tenching."
GRAVE WARNING Finally, it gave this grave warning nnd exhortation to officers and men: "The Ideologinis of imperialism do all they can to poison the worker's minds with the venom of un- certainty in the cause of
communism, and to undermine the profound respect
and sympathy of all peoples for our country and the Soviet armed forces.
"The Communist Party demands that all of us, includ- ing military personnel, should carry on an active, resolute struggle
agonist
bourgeois Ideology,
should
expose
the
Israel's 5-Point
Proposals
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drawal" from Egyptian terri- tory),
a
The Israeli Premier also offer- ed to conclude
"10 belligerency and mutual Aggression" pact with Egypt Immediately.
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The Knesseth endorsed Mr Ben Gurion's policy by passing a resolution embracing the
to
fivo pointeel will continue
1,
kold the Gaza strip and to be responsible for the interna) and external security of the
strip.
B. 8. The Istaci army 'will remain in the Gulf of Aqaba Straits until free passage for Karseli shipping to and from Eilath is assured by suflelent guarantees acceptable Lo
Karnal,
3. Israel demands the da militarization of
Sinal
› Peninsula.
4. Itrnel uppesis
to the Unlied Nations to prepare plans for a permanent seilio- ment of the refugee, problem Incinding that of refugees in the Class strip. Igrast will contribute towards such postlemas.
5. Israel will insist that freedom of shipping through the Bubs Canal in Kogured in any actilement of the Bucs Canal problema-llester,
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By Frank Robbins
The abolitionista,
14
window measuring Avo square however, inchos. His hands are chained have not murrendered, and they together
(chains Bro used Instead of hondcuffs in Italy). Is not allowed to leave this which becomes
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But
the
nij. above abolitionists claim, the life prisoner is deprived
of that all-important thing in lite
hope. A pardon is only possible after his 70th birthday,
or after 30 years in prison and only in exceptional cases Is a pardon granted.
Amnesties do not affect him. The anti-ábolitionists argue that the Italian Code la not very harsh with murderers. Only in cases of multiple murder and particularly vicious klilings do Itallen judges pass
Lite sentences. For so-called "Crimes of passion", terms of 10 or 15 yeare, which may subsequently be reduced by good behavlour or by ainnesties, are the rule rather than the exception.
A good proportion of convicts serving life terms are South Italia bandits with "many notches on their guns", anti-abolitionists declare.
Middle Course
Many
middle
lawyer,
taking
the
course, have said
recently that the present laws life imprisonment concerning should be amended to allow u revision of each case after
D
In
FROZEN FOODS certain number of years
prison. If the prisoner's con TODAY!
duos hos been consistently good, or his health has deteriorated dangerously, pardon, or at least "conditional freedom? should be considered. Signor Eugenio Perucati, lawyer
and former prison
ROWNTREES
CHOCOLATT
A famous name in Chocolate
„this situation
culis for a
San Miguel
governor, who recently wrote o book on the subject, summed it up like this: "If life imprison ment cannot be abolished, the life prisoners should at least be given legal grounds to hope that one day they may be able to emerge from this sepulchre tho Uying"-China Maii Bpocta
of
Hungarian Bishops Meet
Paris, Jan. 23. The Hungarian Episcopal Council today opened in Buda... · pat_its_frm conference, Kinoe the Sartes milltery intervention In Hungary last
The
Budapest
"was presidied·· over by Bishop, Joseph." Greer, Bishop
of Kaloor Groesz, who WAS
1051, wen amandled in May,
1956, and bookmo. “President
of the Hungarian Episcopal Council
Budapest radio mid the Ing
of the blahope would 202. Two day, bis did not, in dierto the purpose of their pon