University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Sept. 28.1954
Swiatlo Given Refuge In U.S.After Red Break
Washington—(U.P.)—Josef Swiatlo, a high official of Communist Poland's secret police, has broken with Communism and has been granted refuge in America, Attorney General Herbert Brownlee Jr., announced today.
Reliable informants said that Mr. Swiatlo is in Washington and is planning to tell of his dramatic flight to freedom at a news conference.
Prior to his defection last December to the American zone of Germany, Mr. Swiatlo was deputy chief of the anti-subversion department of the Polish Ministry of Public Security.
Government informants said Mr. Swiatlo has given U.S. Intelligence agencies some "interesting information" concerning the mysterious disappearance behind the iron curtain in 1949 of three American citizens—Herman Field, Noel Field, and his wife Herta.
Informants said Mr. Swiatlo was brought to the United States "fairly soon" after he broke with the Communists last December.
Mr. Swiatlo is one of several high ranking Iron Curtain defectors who have come over to the West in recent months.
In the meantime he has been "consulting with appropriate government agencies," one informant said.
The Field case has been one of the most mysterious to confront Western authorities since the end of World War II. Noel Field disappeared in 1949 on a visit to Prague, Czechoslovakia. He left his hotel one day and dropped out of sight. He had worked for the State department from 1926 until the mid-1936s.
Herta waited three months for some word from her husband before she and Field's brother, Herman, went to Warsaw to search for him. The pair went to the airport one day in 1949 and Herman bought a ticket for Prague. Although he was listed as a passenger at Warsaw, he apparently did not board the plane and so since Mrs. Field returned to her Warsaw hotel from the airport and then she vanished.
During Czech purge trials in 1952, Noel Field was casually mentioned by the Communists as being in jail as an American spy.
At the time of his break with Communism, Mr. Swiatlo was head of the supersecret "department 10" of Red Poland's Ministry of Public Security. This department is charged with protecting the Communist Party and the Red government from internal unrest and political subversion.
Nine Powers At Stalemate
London —(U,P)— Nine western nations are meeting in London for another attempt at unifying West European defenses, so far stymied by differences between France and Germany.
If the conference fails, it probably will do so on one or more of five key points. Following are the viewpoints held by French Premier Pierre Mendes-France and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on these five points.
German sovereignty
Chancellor Adenauer—wants full sovereignty for his nation without discrimination branding her as beaten, untrustworthy or second best.
Premier Mendes-France agrees the West Germans must be given this sovereignty without discrimination.
Admission to NATO
Chancellor Adenauer wants immediate admission both to the Brussels treaty and the North Atlantic Treaty organization.
Premier Mendes-France now has agreed to Germany's demand for simultaneous admission to both, provided France has her way with rearmament negotiations. Rearmament
Chancellor Adenauer agrees West Germany must rearm on the side of the West, and recognizes safeguards on rearmment must be accepted, but he wants to negotiate them upon Germany voluntarily.
He is believed to go along with the British and American view that these safeguards should be controlled primarily by NATO, not the Brussels pact which he sees more as a unifying political organ.
Premier Mendes-France agrees West Germany must rearm on the side of the West and most emphatically recognizes safeguards must limit the rearmment. He wants to write the limits detailedly into the Brussels treaty and to place most of the policing of those limits under the Brussels pact, not NATO.
Military Command
Chancellor Ademacher wants NATO to command German troops, not a separate military command under the Brussels pact. He agrees to start out with only 12 German d-
The selection of the first George Guy Hall scholars in the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy was announced today by Dean J. Allen Reese.
First Pharmacy Scholars Told
They are Kenneth Raymond Schofield, an entering freshman from Goodland; and Owen Loomis Jr., a sophomore transferring from Garden City junior college. Each receives $250 for the 1954-55 school year.
The scholarships memorialize the late George Guy Hall, longtime pharmacist and civic leader in Oakley. The awards were made possible by a gift from his widow, Mrs. Edith Hall, who now lives in Salina.
Schofield is the son of Mrs. Mildred Schofield, Goodland. He was graduated last May from the Sherman County Community high school.
Loomis is the son of Mrs. Lillian M. Whittaker, Garden City.
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ones on this point.
American and British Troops in Europe
Laborites OK German Arms Oust Bevan From High Post
Scarborough, England—(U.P.)Britain's sharply split Labor party today approved, by a narrow margin, a resolution supporting Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Conservative government's stand in favor of German rearmament.
The vote, which assures a continuing British bipartisan policy on the German arms issue, was taken soon after the party convention, in a stormy session, had toppled from its executive committee, left-wing Aneurin Bevan. Mr. Bevan was defeated for a committee post in the elections.
Chancellor Adenauer agrees American and British troops may remain in sovereign Germany—but by mutual agreement rather than by right—so long as European security is threatened.
Mr. Bevan's wing of the party led the opposition to the rearmament resolution put forward by Clement
Premier Mendes-France wants to make sure Britain commits at least some troops to the Continent and not leave France alone with a rearmed Germany. He insists Britain link herself solidly to this European defense set up.
Attlee, former prime minister and head of the party's conservative element.
Mr. Attlee, in arguing for his resolution, warned the party that there must be provisions for West Europe's defense—including a German contribution—"until there is a complete change of heart in Soviet Russia."
—The moderate socialists won a 3.270,000 to 3,022,000 vote on a resolution backing a German "contribution" to Western defense.
The 1,269 delegates to the annual conference who cast votes for 6,093,-822 party members, also turned down a resolution opposing German renarmament by a 3,281,000 to 2,910,-000 margin.
The vote supports continuance of the present policy on German rearmament even if the Labor party should come to power in a general election.
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