MANY DISAPPEAR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21978, 23 March 1946, Page 5

MANY DISAPPEAR

GERMAN SOCIALISTS OPPONENTS OF MERGER COMMUNIST PARTY (10 a.m.) LONDON, March 22. Hundreds of Gorman Socialists who are opposing the Russian-sponsored plan for merging the Social Democrat end Communist Parties have disappeared in the last few weeks, says the Daily Herald’s correspondent in Berlin. Some reports allege that they have been assembled in the former Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Oranienburg.

The central committee of the Berlin Social Democratic Party lias intensified the campaign against members who oppose an immediate fusion with the Communists, says the Times’ correspondent in Berlin. It was announced that three members who had published leaflets bringing the committee into contempt and who formed a faction within the party would be expelled. They were recently associated in opposing a fusion in which Berlin would be treated as part of the Russian zone.

The newspaper Das Volk published a letter from the chairman of the central committee of the Social Democrats to Dr. Schumacher, spokesman of the Social Democrats in the western zones, attacking him for refusing to allow delegates from the western zones to attend a party conference in Berlin. The letter accuses Dr. Schumacher of countenancing the danger that Germany will be sundered and lose her national unity.