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...NIGHT-Jan Valtin-Alliance...
This week another deserter stepped out of the night and spoke his piece. He had no face and no identity. He called himself Jan Valtin. He claimed that he was: 1) an ex-German Communist; 2) an ex-international organizer of seamen and harbor workers; 3) an ex-agent of the Communist International; 4) an ex-co-worker of the OGPU; 5) an escaped prisoner of the Gestapo; 6) an escaped prisoner of the OGPU; 7) a man wanted dead or alive by both. What he had to tell seemed pretty well to substantiate his claims...
...movement. It describes how strikes in Europe were fomented, and sometimes broken by the fomenter when they conflicted with Soviet policy. It describes the methods whereby a single experienced Communist sailor can disrupt a whole ship by sabotage. It describes how the 1923 Communist uprising in Germany (in which Valtin led a detachment) was organized, then called off by Moscow after fighting began...
James C. Fyshe, M. D. '04, went to England with the first Canadian contingent as surgeon with rank of captain. At the outbreak of the war he settled in Alberta, Edmonton. He went to Valtin with the 19th Alta Dragoons, but was transferred to the Army Medical Corp., with which he had been connected when he was formerly in Montreal...