Protests against the recent death sentences imposed on four Jewish DP’s in the British zone in Germany have been directed by several members of Congrese to General Lucius D. Clay, U.S. military commander in Europe.
Sen. William Langer of North Dakota and Rep. Andrew L. Somers of New York jointly cabled General Clay that “political vengeance rather than justice” motivated the sentence of the British military court which sentenced the four men, Abraham Hubert, Richard Orlinski, Jacob Redlich and Jacob Kryszek. They were sentenced to death after a four-day secret trial during which they were charged with collaborating in an alleged plot to blow up a British troop train.
Rep. John Blatnik of Minnesota wrote Gen. Clay that the American “denazification progam will suffer,” and Judge William S. Bennet, vice-president of the Sons of the American Revolution, wrote British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, protesting the sentences and asking for their commutation.
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