PROTEST LODGED AT PANMUNJON

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26984, 9 March 1953, Page 7

PROTEST LODGED AT PANMUNJON

U.N. CHARGED WITH* WAR CRIMES

(Rec. 11 p.m.) TOKYO, March 8. General Nam 11, the senior Communist delegate at Panmunjon, yesterday lodged a "serious protest” over a “series of war crimes” alleged to have been committed by the United Nations between February 28 and last Wednesday. In a letter to the United Nations senior delegate to the Panmunjon armistice talks, Lieutenant-General William Harrison, he referred to 18 Communist prisoners having been killed during that period. The United Nations Prisoner of War Command had reported that the prisoners had either committed suicide, been murdered by other prisoners dr shot while trying to escape or disobeying lawful orders. ASSASSINATION REPORT (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 8. Stalin was assassinated and the Kremlin doctors concocted the details of his death by cerebral hemorrhage, the “Hartford Courant” said today, quoting a local “reputable authority’’ on Russian affairs. The paper said the man asked that his name be withheld because he had relatives living in Moscow. I| said the man had received a letter from “underground ' sources”" in the Soviet that said that Stalin was dead by assassination at the time the Kremlin first announced his illness this week. The letter was postmarked “Helsinki, Finland, March 3,” the paper said. pie newspaper quoted the informant as saying the assassination was hushed up because of the effect it would have on the Russian people and on the anti-Communist world. U.S. Ambassador to Japan.—President Eisenhower has named Mr John Allison as United States Ambassador to Japan in succession to Mr Robert Murphy. Mr Alison is at present Assistant-Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. Mr Eisenhower also nominated Mr Murphy as AssistantSecretary of State for United Nations Affairs.—Washington, March 7.