The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08
BY CAROLINE BRAMMER

ance with our democratic custom, the
candidates come before the people
with answers to the peoples ques
lions. The people, after deep consid
Grafton. 60 to the polling places OF
the nation and, by means of their
votes. register their opinion OF the
answers given.
am a voter and l have question.
I want to know what we bought with
Use Koch. Since one candidate for
the highest office, Mr.. Truman, is the
present commander-in-chief of the
armed forces of the United States, he
undoubtedly knows the answer. Like
wise. the candidate of the Republican
party. Mr.. Dewey, is the self-con-
fessed author of our present foreign
policy and as such must know the
answer.
A group of senators, comprising
members of both the Democratic and
Republican parties, has begun move
to compel the War Department TO
answer this question. I honor them
for this action but feel that the mat
ter is of such Importance to the Amer
lean people in the face of the coming
national election that we do not have
the time to wait on even the best |
intentioned congressional inyestiga-
ton.
Candidates Should Answer Question
There is a simpler way. The time
is here for the candidates to answer
our questions. SO what, Mr.. Truman I
and Mr.. Dewey, did we, the American
people, buy with our national honor
MUS the infamous Use Koch?
I trust that good Republicans and
good Democrats will join me in press
ing this question. I need their help
because [ am not in position to L.
promise my vote to the hand that !.
goes up first l am not going to
vote for either Mr.. Truman or Mr..
Dewey for very many reasons plus
Use Koch.
Aside from the horrid thought that
1ur national honor and morality can
,e so casually bartered, the case of :
lse Koch is so peculiar that l am GER : :
ain anyone with normal amount =
If curiosity will want to know the y
lature of the commodity for which = :
his high price was paid. =
Reviewing the case of Use Koch 7
: a distressing occupation for decent o.
eople. but the official action of the 81
IS military authorities in Germany O.
! reducing her sentence from life =
Imprisonment to four years (begin- n
ing with her arrest in 1915, thus ~
.eeing her in 1949) requires our at ii
ention. Ia
Use Koch, better known as die n
este Won Buchenwald" is the wife II
{ the commandant of the Infamous n
uchenwald charnel house In the
ords of William D. benson, Amer .,
an prosecutor at her trial for war nc
'iminality, 81 know Frau Koch we'll fl
was her chief prosecutor. 1 know rr
e extent, the quantity and the quail or
Y of the evidence against her. Fl,
ow Army Says Conclusive Evidence ia
Lacking BIZ
"There was so much that l was tn
reed to use restraint. al volumes; Fe
o prisoners personally questioned; an
0 others submitted written affidav- ic;
- | presented only ten witnesses. -
1 knew far more about Use Koch
an went into the trial proceedings.
UGH could not be brought into the
al. A large part of her story can
It be told here either. 1t is so I'M
indecent
Suffice it to say that Use Koch
veloped into sadistic pervert I'M
atched in history"
The prosecutor goes on to tell of
es amusements and pleasures, her
atings of emaciated, starving and
ing prisoners. The lamp shades
d book bindings of human skin
tn which she decorated her man
n.
The entire action surrounding the
,ommendation of the reviewing
thority puzzles me-" concludes Mr..
nson in his article for the New
rk Post Home News. "The func-
n of a court is to determine the
of witnesses by viewing
.ir demeanor on the stand. A re-