Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-04
Pegler SIaps
At Kindness.
Shown VaI+in
Takes California TO Task
for Complete Pardon
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

TOT OOfrlpIeIe T iOOil
BY wESTBROOK PEGLER
TO THE number of those who
u have received special kind
ness at the hands of the pro-
Communist government OF the
once American state Of Califor-
MIA in recent weeks. the name OF
Richard julius Herman krebs.
alias Jan Valtin. may now be
added.
krebs is the international
agent who served both the Mus
covites and the NaZiS. served a
prison term in California for
attempting to carry out a politi-
cal execution by order of the
Kremlin and recently wrote a
book which became a best seller
by virtue Of its shocking admis-
sionS.
For years he drifted about
a., the world in the service Of the
Moscow conspiracy, dealing in
treachery and always an enemy
of the people whose hospitality
he enjoyed and of-the American
people and their peace and
safety in particular.
He vas an agent and spy OF
the same evil government OF
Russia which made a solemn
treaty Of recognition with the
United States on promise to
desist from sabotage Of the
American way but nevertheless
continued that stealthy betrayal
of he.trust OF a fool
He welshed on his Communist
friends and betrayed them 10
take service with the Nazis and
now he has betrayed the Nazis
and applied for American citi-
zenship. which is likely 10 be
granted merely because he saws
he has seen the error Of his past
and wants 10 be an American.
GOV. GILBERT l.. OLSON.
NJ the chief Of the pro-Com-
munist administrat ton in Cali
fornia. has given krebs. or VAL
tin. an unconditional pardon so
that his application for citizen
ship may be aided.
krebs served a term m San
Quentin for beating man over
the head with a pistol in COM
pliance with an assignment from
his Russian superiors 10 dispose
Of traitor 10 the Soviets.
He wrote IN his book that he
faltered because he had Scruples
against killing in cold blood,
although he had not heslta'ed 10
promote and participate in Conn
muniSt street fighting in Ger
any and therefore. merely
slugged the man whom he UNI
derstood 10 be his subject.
Caught and given 10 years, he
served three years, was deported
and came back 10 .ihe United
States
There is no assurance but his
own word that he has reformed
and become. in heart. an Ameri-
can. and there is every reason
i'm his own story for believing
that he takes citizenship with
the same mental reservations
that are held by every Nazi and
every European Communist.
Nevertheless. although II was
not necessary for him 10 do so.
Governor Olson has pardoned
Krebs. who is now engaged in
lecturing and exploiting his past
for profit as career and soon
enough he viii he an American
citizen on equal footing with
any American who vas horn
here and has never for moment
wavered in his loyalty.
THE pardon follows soon after
i the parole Of three murder
ers in California who engaged
group OF Communists 10 as
sault an American sailor and
stab him dead because the
American had resisted the con-
spiracies of the Communist
members Of the ships company.
These murdercrS were turned
out on the strength Of Governor
OlSons expressed opinion that
in somewhat under five years in
prison they had fully expiated
Their con, arrily ntrrtier OF man
whose life was forfeit because
he would not cooperate with or
finch from the Communists.
The. California Communists
campaigned for their release on
the fat proposition that. guilty
or not of this murder. they
should he freed. and Governor
Olson subscribed 10 that for
there was no contention in the
parole order that they were in
nocent OF murder and the VIC
Tins of injustice.
The Communists who de-
manded the release Of the MUIR
derers had been encouraged by
San Francisco Judge who re-
fused to punish even for an hour
Samy Darcy. Ukrainian Rus
sian perjurer, who had the
effrontery to run for the office
of governor Of California and
swore he had been born in New
York.