ON THE LEFT…car Summit Mystery, Gilbert Green, con- victed Illinois Communist leader, who has been a fugitive for five years, sur- rendered himself to the U. S. Attorney in New York with the statement that “my voluntary appearance here is an indication of a changing political cli- mate and my confidence of still great- er changes ahead.” Henry Winston, another convicted Illinois Red, who jumped bail, has also surrendered. The American Reds seem to have received word from Soviet sources that Eisen- hower would go easy on the American Communists as a proof of his adher- ence to the spirit of Geneva.
In The Colleges. Herbert Aptheker addressed about 750 students and fa- culty members of the University of Minnesota at a forum sponsored by the all-University congress. The Minne- sotan Daily, the college newspaper, editorially welcomed the decision to open the forum to this well-known Communist. Tough Party Line. Among the pro- posals of the recent legislative confer- ence of the Communist Party in New York were the following: 1) Condem- nation of the government security program, the industrial security pro- gram, congressional “witchhunts,” perjury indictments, and passport re- strictions. 2) Demands for interven- tion of the federal government, includ- ing the use of federal troops, in the South. 3) Demands for removal of the Mississippi delegation from Congress. The conference praised the work of the newly formed Emergency Civil Liberties Conference.
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