Evening star., 1953-03-22

toms of the Communists colossal
inferiority complex are old stuff,
Of course. But they have grown no
less annoying with age.
Communist hostility toward the
and murderouSly demonstrated
again. Along the borders Of free
Germany two Allied planes have
just been downed and seven British
airmen have lost their lives. Two
other planes, one in Germany and
the other of Kamchatka in the
Far East, have been buzzed by Red
fighter pilots.
These incidents, however, are only
the latest episodes in what has be-
come a monotonouS pattern of Red
SenSitivity to foreign contact or
threat of contact. Here are some
of the major incidents which have
continuously dramatized the Com
munist fear of the outside world:
(They are keyed by number to the
map at the top of this page.)
1. February, 1946-Soviet planes
fired on a United States Navy sea-
plane near Dairen, Manchuria.
z. August, 1946-Soviet Russia de-
manded a share In control Of the
Dardanelles.
3. October, 1947-Col. Gen. Andrei
A. Zhdanov Of the Kremlin Polit-
buro warned all Communists to stay
away from the Marshall Plan. He
&dvised them to try to defeat it.
4. April, 1948-The Berlin land
blockade was set up by the Soviet
military government In East Ger
many. The blockade, and the Vests
subsequent counterblockade, were
lifted at the end Of September, 1949.
5. December, 1948- Hungarian
Communists arrested Joseph Cardi-
nal MindSZenty, Roman Catholic
primate Of Hungary, on charges OF
treason, espionage and black mar
keting. He was convicted and
sentenced to life imprisonment in
February, 1949.
6. February, 1949 - Hungary's
Communist government demanded
the recall of the United States Min
lister in Budapest, Selden Chaplin,
on charges Of interference in inter-
nal affairs.
Z. March, 1949-Fifteen Protest.
ant ministers were convicted by a
Bulgarian Communist court Of eS-
pionage for the United States and
Great Britain. Four were sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
8. April, 1949-Chinese Commu-
mist batteries shelled two British
%Ioa voponf1a DiUAr NTH
q casualties resulting.
9. October, 1949-Secret police in
CzechoSlovakia seized 10000 persons
accused of sympathy with the West,
with the Catholic church, or with
Yugoslavia, and sent them to coal
mines or Soviet uranium mines.
10. October, Hungarian For
eign Minister Laszlo Rajk and two
other former high-ranking officials
of the Communist government in
Budapest were hanged for conspir-
ing with the United States and
Yugoslavia.
IL. October, Chinese Com
muniSts arrested Angus Ward, United
States Consul General in Mukden,
and four consulate employees for al
legged beating of Chinese. The four
were sentenced to three to six
months but released in November
on orders to leave the country.
IL. November, 1949 - Communist
Hungary arrested Robert A. Vogeler,
American businessman, on charges
Of spying, convicted him in Febru-
ary, 1850, on trumped-up counts,
HayVf a~A11Hy 1o1no cod him IN APNri1
1851, when the United States agreed
to let Hungarian conSulateS here
reopen.
13. April, 1854 United States
Navy "PriVateer" bomber was shot
down by Soviet fighter planes in
the Baltic. The q. S. s. R., claiming
in note that the plane was B-29,
decorated the airmen who had shot
it down.
IA. September, 1854 Soviet
twin-engined bomber fired at ap-
preaching United States fighters of
the west coast Of Korea and was
shot down by American fighters
screening United Nations ships.
Is. September, 1850 Communists
charged that United States planes
attacked Manchurian territory.
16. October, 1861. s. s. r.
note charged that a United States
plane shot up Siberian airfield.
II. February, 1951-Charged with
plotting to align Czechoslovakia with
Western Europe, DR.. Vladimir
Clements, Communist ex-foreign
minister, was arrested by the Reds.
Is. April, 1951-William N. Oats,
Associated Press correspondent in
Prague, was arrested by Czechoslo-
yak Communists on charges Of spy
ing for the United States. In July
he was sentenced to 10 years after
staged trial. He is still in custody.
19. June, 1951-Hungarian Com
munistS convicted Archbishop Josef
Groesz, successor to Cardinal Mind
Szenty as Roman Catholic church
head in Hungary. Of plotting against
the government and sentenced him
to Is years imprisonment.
20. November, 1851 - Russian
fighters shot down a United States
Navy P2V Neptune with 10 men
aboard, over the sea near Vladivos-
tok. Siberia, in international wa
terS
FL. November, 1851 "A United
States transport plane, lost over
Rumania and Hungary. was forced
down in Hungary. The flyers in
the plane were released for $123, 900
ransom, but the plane Is still i'm
pounded.
70. January, 1924 Communist
news agency in China charged that
so United States planes had flown
over Liaotung Province.
%. April, 1924 French airliner
was fired on by two Russian jet