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his. death last year, SIDCL1 'nee the setairman of the .••• Xi:61E0k National Council Abrevai. Ewr since 1935, he wee a factor

in• Csechoelovak politics. in rpneral and Sldvak polities in..• . •• • . . .

. part,toujar, A3. a keen follower of ists.er ELINKA and his rightist• •• Viczk...:Pazi:.*Oollaborationist party during %rid War II, he was among

• • *IV •JAPet... volatile enemies ef the Czechs. ;its militant nationalism-c.„-..'priagefi'•Wz.li•complcite separation of the Jlovalcs from the Czechs and

••• the SatabIlihment of .the former into 'an indePendent 'state. • When this. •Oaine to :pitse,.under the Nazi Eiegia, he llayed along, and represented. • •.•.the./L-si puppet• SloVek . state in the Vatican.. • After the war he remained

.• .in Vatican City and was on the list of war-time Nazi criminals, and .•was.,a11:egedly •tried in absentia. by the Czech government as a war crininal. •

•••,•StciiireMidrated to Gimade 141950 and eventually . eame,to • the Jnited •• .• • ..*•attver.).:•,:altbemOr the Department of State hid px •eviouisly refuek a vise• ' • ; Iiincti. 191i7 as .a "person whose entry would be prejuilical to the

.....iittereste.ef the CM:Mid States. . .

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1950 SIDE was viqlently attacked b:PWaltiex Vinchell in an •••• aticle in :the Washington Post which save a co*. Thte degehotionof

'''....::•*•'-1•0•MCIR!s*pro-Nae and fascilt past, and LI =landed that ite be expelledNe was criticized for having rade no attampi

at eliirinciaing: . a- prO.4311ed feeling at the time 'when 1-drims in•wicid* a. public declaration se late att. 3.914 that the

"v'ole-' rtedl,y at the s.irle of the great 'Germanai' and 'protector', and this at a time when American planes . from •

...•••••-.•„;;;AtiAtancbasecr...were.flying supp/ies to the Slovak revolutionary ati• r Nai iocop • • .

• :....':••••••-'•••••M.s...!...". • • . .4•1761*,4e. ;;SEDca v s arriVal in the United gt.at.e.s, ciel*ed' _'..';;;. •''

'•••• ii efiestier..; ;Teaches vdolentir attacki.ng the represeitat.0:.ifs..: • - •etfUe': ..Cdeihrial..bviiic: Members of the Coexicik4fOr . Pree ClecheSlin'Edctialt.`":•, ' ,•••••- • , ..4)". ••

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Chal.raiaa. !of the Sliivak League in Inerica and editor. of the • •••••çwaej 114(.1cirt "JEDNOTA, • publ_tahed in Iii•Idlettmni, pennlYlVard.a. : • .

_..0,go.pikb1,11-4_3;:057irMah:language bulletizi;•..Sloiak•Nerf-Letter,: •-•

.:s06.4441,04!..11citi:b4mio,gp.9491 group and the Czech National Councilsof •• •'•• ••:. ' 1•̀ ' • 1413Ait:haw been •a •tinse adherent of the •SIDOR • group Fi•f, • : '

States and has made attacks on Radio Free uropo n •

OsS Itis in that Curt GLASER has been publisting • • .

agsinst e. Tavernen , a :Nadia Free 'Europe, • :•••••:0 jvarious 'Insinuations - and demanding .th#. •ral2't4WIcififeat Zbzech •

?.'iteilabdicitbra' • be *purged' and- re-placed. A trarkaatiiiiii.ot,Ifiriii,'truinfT.Fzieti::ie itaciO. Free zurciiie te-iftfkititi. . • 't••••-•••,:t"...;;.

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• •• Pounder. •a the Slovak Liberation Committee,. Like JIDOR, he• i.s'ecnisidered ' a collaborator of the Nazi Slovak puppet goveinmant

• -... ,dailnu.,the var,:and was in fact the first foreign minister appoin•• Re wits,•toneVer; disioissed from his post in 1941,(and fled to Vienna

• •• •bere te at-took the Czechoslovak R0pubLio. In April 19 •• *:!rhea MOANS/a nes abroad, the Czechoslovak government of President

. rested theea.-tradition of 7/9.CANSKY for trial in Czechoslovakia. • war:or/id/44.3mA the request was refused since the apolicable. • •••=•,"

treatr.(Italo—Czeell of 1921) was not applicable to political criminala.•',Dt.tCANSKt.hie asayu favored the concept of an independent .M.ovaida,• •.

and'atlicriiini:e has'frequent1,7 been spoken of as a rival of. SIDON,- •••?.:■•.;:'•:•-:::/thii":4Rna:g•roapsliave, in fact, hams had identical rotas ane of.DURCISISrfle,,-.*.:5---V

.eil-4tee._ie the united States is Ve teel_l_l_tattMaIC, chairman of the Nati !nal. ••'• • Coisnitteefor Liberation of Slovakia.,

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• Alleged to have maintained relations with one Adokf SAC!, a political •. reiNtgee living.in Paris. In 19119 an investigation was coriducted

• regarding SACilgit because of . auspicion of collaboration with tesiaunist• Organs, but was discontinued beoause of insufficient evidence. At. .

• that times z 'SACiTER was the official purchasing agent of the Czechoslovak• • Sia-te:Totiacco iitinbpoly• andwaintained contact: wit!: official business• agetirdes in Czechcielovakia, as has been shown from his files.

• . . • It has else been reliably r ported that PaBORII. kas also in• toUChi.th one. Josef KUHAL,' who is at present •ander indictment of.

Ari'l4tSry1/2.espionige •on behalf of Czechoslovaida beofre the Paris •••isi2iteryt.Trib0nar, end who appears to t ..ave belonged to tr:o Corisunist£oE.uietwbr1, "Beige" andqiebastiann . The purpose Of the contacts- 0 .V001131.wa..,. according to source, the shipment • Of

.....I0:4;03640-4to • ircin, Curtain countries; especially to the C5Re •

". :Irojjogkhd5 also :tit= r eperteiclly boon in close contact with oneconvicted by the Delgian.s in a clear cut case of .

-4• • •• esj9onaoonMgha1f of the •Czechs. .. • . • . ••

. .may be sigmLticant to point out the following exceppt from a letter .

tteirt-bifzerdiiiisid'IlIXSC778 in Gorman to a fricnr3 in London: (iZov. 10,;1953).;have been

nanslati vitcd by the agency for donducting • :•, ••.

•psychological warfare to come to eashington. • I'learned the purpose of my invitation only •after-

• •arrival. here. -I must return te Prance by the 18th.. "...tif.'November in order to reiort the. mitcame ofe..,••';'discuisions to •General atUrif3ER in pinion.. . •

OCARTU: Will be dealing With upersonalities#•••of,. • •. .

e7LSTEFO5letnik exiled politicians in :theAlie.:ineit'fdir days. • In that sanner theY will pe..:

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1,!..I.c.annetrunderstand *him BEssr,,Pfp,r. couid debeeS.Ii4iseele.:t0" make. an 'agreement with . Czech tailiticiani.:-

tia...gre.„.; • '..."pa.t. 1131(3Cirr.' has beer( silepeetect Of ,boingNimr. that he. has also shad -a very elbee : tie'te the

404. sUcha3 r-'fais• Kurt. Cf..ASM : forces ' ' •. • . . • •e

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TIe Slovak Liberati on Committee is composed of the most .

. 'eictreme rightist Slovaks in exile led by Dr. Ferdinand

Mnrcaniky, former Minister of the Interior, and,Pereign

'Secretary Of .the Tiso regime in Slovakia. After the war, .

Durcansky,.whose'name headed the list of.Allied.4eanted.

war o'iminale, escaped to Argentina.

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1-t304Ourcansky-Tiso regime broke, owing to'Slayak syMPathlei

. , . . .with'the Allies, Durcansky took part in the merciless .

.. Oppreesion of that rebellion. Theusands of persons were •

.Aigoldated without haVing been accorded whatever trial, by.s:

AiAther the'German.or Durcansky's Hlinks:GUal4.' • .. '

-. '.1n.1945, DUrcenaky fled framSlovakie together with..the:. . .,.:s: .. . . . . . • ,,Germana‘. 'He toak with bisi A large amount of medicament@ and :-...,.. • .

',elso-.spium. He liVes on the.proceeds of this-lat.and tin/6047

•':nis' .preseni poli:tioal ectiVity frivv:thess4Undi:-11.. ..

'.'t4:.found on the lisp ofekr.isrl:mini1.6,:lassued,pvthiVill :--

';':;L:iip:ri!:war. .1.4 11..;egieiterediri]Millomi.iiiiieen,i141.1

F`••:4'under the name of the lairplca AllAx4. During his regime, 3,000

democratic Slovaks have been jailed; 3,995 were sentenoed;

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0,000 persons were dragged off to German concentration

- amps; 109,000 Jews were deported to Germany and Poland, of

hich 68,000 perished. Germany, was provided with 126,000..Slovak workera. During all this time, Durcansky provoked

.' hatred and aspersion against the Jews in press and radio-and'

/supported racial theory. A:lawyer by professien, Durcansky

,#/and his office profited from arisation of Jewish property.

He was the recipient of bribes, running into hundreds of

we'thoudands, from terrified Jews. .,

. Later, Durcansky became Foreign Secretary of the Slovak

state. With others, he is responsible for Slovakia having--;,..

:declared war on America and England. He led the radio cam-

: paign against Western democracies, defaming their institu-

.*:.tiens.,When.in 1944'an uprising against the Germans and - '

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tensed to death in Czechoslovakia, in contumaciam. The

documents of the International Court of Justice in Nuremberg

. offer all necessary material as to his activities.