Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-09

he SAID, have always main
tained that they were the
staunchest supporters of Lenin.
Yet, In every acute crisis they
turned AGAINST Lenln.
"Some types may be of some
use TO the revolutionary move
ment, but I'm no circumstances
can they be entrusted with
key positions"
/ agreed. Wollweber con-
tinued:
"Bitter experience has shown
us that every former comrade
vino WIS caught consptrtng
against the party must, as n
matter of necessity, wind up
i'm the camp of fascism, an ally
OF Hitler and the counter
revolution"
"Concretely," / said, "what
are the denuneiations against
me and who made them?"
There are no denuncia-
tions," Wollweber growled.
There are charges. Comrade
Dimitrov I'm Moscow il In
possession Of n report signed
by you In which you accuse
the western secretariat OF the
Communist International of
having uselessly sacrificed
able comrades on wild-go0se
chases I'm Germany"
II did not accuse the west
ern secretariat," i cried holly.
II accused Comrade Ernst
Wollweber. 1 maintain this
accusation"
LUNCHES SHOULDERS
Wollweber hunch e d his
shoulders. Jensen leaned back
with a sheer, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
half-contemptuous.
Names" Jensen rumbled.
"Yon have them. They are
in my report to Moscow. The
Comrades Walter Duddins,
Funk, Fiete Dettman, Claus,
Robert Stamm. The Swedish
Comrades Person and Mineur.
The Reichstag Deputy Conn
rade Maddalena. The Com
rades Saefkow and Hans
KoschnilS. The women Conn
rades Firelei, Cilly, Lilo Herr
man. There are more. You
have them on your list"
you are too clever" Wolf
weber interrupted me. "None
of the comrades you name are
available to corroborate your
statements"
mo, they are I'm prison.
Claus, Stamm, Lilo had their
heads cut off. They must have
felt fine about being butch
cred! Before they went, they
talked through the walls,
through air shafts, I'm church,
in notes pinned on broomsticlSs
and handed from window to
window. In the prison camps,
the name of Ernst Wollweber
smells of carbon"
RIGMAROLE
"Rigmarole," growled Woll-
weber, "all this Is open for
later discussion. 1 have here
another report. IT comes from
bland. Here YOU are
definitely accused of shady
transactions with such coun-
ter-revOlutionary wolves as
the renegade Hans KFsuse,
with the Socialist Fascist Edo
Fimmen, with Franco spies,
with a long gallery of other
political adventurers."
I felt as if some one had
hit me on the head with a
hammer.
"COmrade Krause Is no rene
gade," l said sullenly. "He
went TO Spain TO demonstrate
that the rumOrs against him
were false. He was wounded
at the front. I considered IL
my duty to"
"Excuses!" Wollweber burst
in. "True Bolshevih have
never grubbed around for ex-
cuses. They admit their mis-
takes, and let the party
decide"
"All right. I demand a hear
ing before the control COM
mission"
This IL the control COM
mission" Jensen said. "You
will have time to talk later"
Then came the most shat
tering shock 1 had experienced
in all my years Of devotion to
the Comintern,
Finally" Wollweber said
with great calmness, his out
stretched arm pointing at me
across the table, "the party
accuses you Of having DELHI
erately organized acts OF
sabotage against the apparat
in Hitler Germany"
Il think you are crazy"
shot at him.
Wollweber gave me a sar-
donic smile.
DO you consider Comrade
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