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With El Campesino in the Paris courtroom was one of the largest collections of Soviet slave-camp alumni ever assembled Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews, Spaniards, and Balts. They included Jerzy Gliksman, brother of the Polish Socialist Victor Alter, who was executed by the NKVD in 1941; Margarete Buber-Neumann, author of Under Two Dictators (TIME, Jan. 15), whom the Bolsheviks jailed in Russia in 1938, then turned over to the Nazis in 1940; Julius Margolin, Tel Aviv philosophy student who traveled to France to tell the court about his six years in Soviet durance...
Margarete Buber, once a Communist who could point to an eleven-year record of toeing the party line, began to get into trouble with the U.S.S.R. in 1931. That year, her common-law husband, top-ranking German Communist Leader Heinz Neumann, dared to say no when Stalin asked: "Don't you think that if [Naziism] came to power in Germany it would be so much taken up in the West that the Soviet Union could develop in peace and build up Socialism?" Booted out of his high party post, Neumann was assigned to a round of minor party chores...
...Author Buber gives no details of Heinz Neumann's role in the German Communist party (and in the Comintern) before his fall from grace. Other ex-Communists, writing books of their own, have told more. In Out of the Night (1941), the late Jan Valtin described him as "the ruthless Heinz Neumann," chief of the anti-Nazi division of the German Communist party, who once, in ordering a strong-arm demonstration, told Valtin: "Ich will Leichen sehen" (I want to see corpses...
...American League, Stoughton's top team led by Stove Franschi took a 15 to 0 victory from Thayer North. Franschi scored eight of the points. Sid Singer and Pete Neumann made the two touchdowns that enabled Straus North to defeat Thayer South, 14 to 0. Lionel beat Matthews North, 18 to 6, with the pass combination of John Bray and Neil Bortz scoring two touchdowns...
...commemorate the fifth anniversary of the U. N. Charter, the United Nations Council will sponsor a talk by Sgimund Neumann, visiting professor of Government, on "The U. N. --Beyond Korea" in the Littauer Auditorium at 8 p.m. tonight...