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...other man was Anton Marek, senior police inspector and a staunch anti-Nazi, last seen in 1948 entering Soviet occupation headquarters in answer to a telephone summons. Reported Moscow: Marek, now 65, is serving 20 years "for espionage." For his bedridden wife, Russian officials had a letter scribbled in pencil on plain paper: "I am a prisoner in the Soviet Union. I am in fairly good physical condition, though I have to work here in the jail. I am longing to see you. My fondest love to our son and friends...
Died. Maurice Petsche, 55, able career man in French governments since 1920, Finance Minister in four of France's revolving-door cabinets between 1949 and 1951; of uremia; in Paris. A wealthy conservative, whose long cigarette holder became a trademark, Petsche was an active anti-Nazi during the German occupation of France in World War II. In postwar years, he fought vigorously for economy, successfully used Marshall Plan aid to strengthen France's sickly economy...
Poland. Nine high military staff officers, four of them generals, several of them for mer members of the anti-nazi Polish underground, are on trial, charged with spying for the West. A tenth is in jail. Deportation of "unessential" people from towns to rural areas is causing widespread unrest and desperate efforts to escape (see below). In Warsaw an estimated 40,000 former government workers, doctors, lawyers, and small businessmen have been ordered deported by the Communist police...
Adenauer has wisely entrusted his embryonic defense ministry to a sober, militarism-proof trade-unionist, Theodor Blank. Blank's top experts, Generals Adolf Heusinger and Hans Speidel, have anti-Nazi records, though they also had brilliant military careers...
...There a Difference? Prosecution lawyers painted a very different picture of Falkenhausen. Presiding Judge Achille Marechal asked how it happened that a reputed anti-Nazi was given as important a job as Falkenhausen's. The accused general snapped: "I can't answer that. I was told I was being chosen for my competence." When a defense witness reported that many plain Belgians trusted Falkenhausen to help them, the judge declared: "I note that Falkenhausen did nothing [to help them] except perhaps show himself sympathetic...