MEMBERS SUSPENDED
Non-Communist Parties
Measures In East Germany Rec. 11.50 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 30. The first serious move against nonCommunist parties in East Germany since the formation of the new State is now under way, says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Five Liberal Democratic members of the Provincial Diet of Brandenburg in the Soviet zone have been suspended from the party for criticisms of the Russians and of the East German Government’s policy, and one of them has also been dismissed from his employment in the State-owned trading organisation. The charge against all five was that at a recent meeting in Potsdam they expressed reactionary sentiments. One of them expressed himself disparingly about Russian culture. Although the meeting was private the Communists. appear to have obtained a full report of what was said. Arrests and suspensions of non-Com-munists are also reported in Leipzig, Cottbus, and other centres in the Soviet zone.
The German news agency reported last night that Herr Skrobel, the Liberal Democratic leader in Cottbus, fled with his wife to Western Germany on learning that a warrant for his arrest had been issued.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27277, 31 December 1949, Page 5
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