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a ot he, EGR FF Ma a TF eh ye ee ne _ _ «@ pagol-Columetend2 = = = Novenbor 6, 1948 Tie TRIAL AOATUST THE TATLVE COLNN ist ewes: Poa ee ew lt RR ee 4 ~ °° - "Qn Novembor 1, while the Aserican people vere preparing to go to the polls, Federal Juige relate Re MEDIXA, for the evident purpose of keeping constantly alive the. "anti~Commmist furore" wh which the American rvactionaries, imitating the lazis, would want to reduce to allence the lovdrs of peace and demooracy, refused to pornit the passage of tha present period of hysteria and pernit the return of calm before inatituting Proceeamee against the twelve leaders of : the Communist Partye 30) vy eui 2. .- . He accopted tho augrestion of the Prosocutor who for purely , electoral reasons, protested the lerinent "danger" that the trolve " leadors would conatitute to publio ordar, amt decreed that the trial would begin on November 15. po Wie would be guileless to think thet the result of the elections ~ which in a certain senso constitutes an Indication of : the anti~reactionary mood of the American people ~ will induco the - Justice Department to desist in this insane and mad plan %o make thie” triel against tho Commnists a fascist bacchanalian revelry. It is . up to the laborers to fight at the head of the people to prevent the - roactionaries from depriving us through this Wied, ¢ of our most elonontary rights and submitting us to a polica state... bbe ule : It fa tine that every Awerican worthy of the name understands that 1f tho reactionarios are peraitted to deny the Conmmmists - who - are not accusod of having comiutted any act of force and violence ageinst the governmnt of the Republic ~ the right to assemble and support their own principles whieh, according to a judgment of the - Supreme Court with regard to thorxQCHNEIDIRZAl case, are not in any . way anti~demoratic, they will ul tely destroy the democratic syoten . and march tonerd fencien. ; Ae tonne agotetd te ‘beta ort rier bard ee blac caer 750s eee ae . “the bent ropresontatives “of the European peoples who now how many sorrows and hardships it has oost thes for having permitted ~ Mussolini and Hitler to attack and persecute the Communists, have. hastened to warn us that if we do not atop the reactionaries while they are preparing for the WILLIAM TER trial and that of his companions, . it will be mre difficult ~ mich mre difficult ~ to stop them when, — - . encouraged by thoir success, they will attack anyone who dares to. _ Hight fe for a better future. 2. Pass ore Pen ro. ek Re er nfo de Be Tey Fe fg ee : ie sn or duty to Mate bo tte mr ~ nt ve Teale, ertoans