WEST’S PROTEST REJECTED
BERLIN, June 21. Russia today rejected the Western Allied protests at the harshness with which she crushed last week’s East Berlin riots.
Major-General Dibrova, the* Soviet Army Commandant of East Berlin, said he was ready to restore the normal life of the city if the 'Western Powers, on their side, would act to stop “criminal elements” from being allowed to enter the East sector. The three Western commandants protested to the Soviet authorities in Berlin last Thursday against the “arbitrary measures” taken in East Berlin after the previous days’ largescale rioting.
They asked Major-General Dibrova, who crushed the riot with martial law and tanks, to lift the “harsh restrictions” on East Berliners, and to restore free circulation In the city. In his reply today the Russian commandant said that the measures he took were necessary to end violence, plundering, and arson organised by “Fascist agents from West Berlin.”
He stated that one West Berliner, Werner Kalkovsky, had confessed to being one of 90 agents paid by foreign “services.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27073, 23 June 1953, Page 9
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