Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07

any way" he said. II want a united,
independent and democratic Austria
without pressure. have no political
ambitions"
DR.. Schacht said he had no idea
why the Gestapo broke into his bed
room last July % and arrested him.
He was held in strictest solitary con-
finement for nine months, part of
the time in a cave beneath Gestapo
headquarters in Prince AlberstraSse
in Berlin.
! 500 Persons Killed.
He said 500 persons were killed
as result of the attempt on Hitler's
life three days before his arrest.
Dispatches from Rome said that
Ezra Pound, American-born poet,
under indictment for treason, had
been captured. There were no details
of the reported seizure of Pound,
long resident in Europe.
Pound was indicted in Wash
ington in July, 1943, on charges
that he had given aid and COM
fort to the enemy by repeated
broadcasts from an Italian ra-
dio station. broadcasts designed
to persuade citizens of the Unit
ed States not to support their
government in its war efort)
Daladier and Reynaud were en-
route back to Paris today with a
group of other notables after liber-
alton from liter Castle in Austria
by the United States 7th Army.
Members of the French group re-
turning to Paris included Leon
JouhauX, head of French trade
unions; Francois de la ROGUE, head
of the extreme right anti-German
Nationalist, and Michel Clemen-
ceau, son of the World War states
man and a nephew of Gen. Charles
de Gaulle.
British notables released with 1t.
Winant-all of whom said they were
going to London as soon as possible
included 1t. Viscount George
Henry Lascelles, nephew of King
George; Capt. Lord Buller-Fuller-
ton Elphinstone, nephew of Queen
Elizabeth; Capt. George Alexander,
Earl of Haig, son of the World War
commander; 1t. Charles William,
Earl of Hopetoun, son of the Mar
guess of Linlithgow, and 1t. Matu
Duhamel, relative of Prime Minis
ter Churchill.
Winant Going to London.
1t. Winant, also returning to Lon
don, had been shovdow over Meun-
ster on October 10, 1943, on his 18th
mission as Flying Fortress pilot
Maj. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe
Of Washington, famec nuts to-the-
Germans defender of Bastogne, had
as dinner guests yesterday the for
mer French Premiers Daladier and
Reynaud and other notables, includ-
ing 1t. Winant.
Gen. Komorowski, who as Gen.
Dor" directed the unsuccessful g.
day revolt in Warsaw, was brought
to the American command post
along with 1t. Winant and the liber-
ated British notables by Swiss rep
reSentatives who had taken over the
special prison camp as protectors Of
Allied interests in enemy territory.
Existence of the prison at liter
Castle was disclosed when the IA
nous Basque tennis ace Jean Bor-
otra escaped in disguise and got
through German lines to 7th Army
tank forces which fought their way
to the castle Saturday and were met
at the gate by Daladier.
Gen. Dor, interviewed by AP Cor
respondent A. 1. Goldberg, upheld
the London Polish officials YER
sion that he, not they. had chosen
TIE moment for the Warsaw Sep
TENDER l uprising, a matter of dis
pute between the London Poles and
Moscow. He said:
THE London government knew
how we'll prepared we were. They
were aware of the situation inside
Warsaw and of how many weapons
we had. But it was I who set the
day and hour of the uprising. I
thought the Russians were within
three or four days of entering the
city and I thought we were ready
to surprise the Germans.
1--WE had two bridges over the
Vistula leading to the Russians.
Il am not ready at this time to