BOISTEROUS SESSION

Chronicle (Levin), 23 September 1949, Page 5

BOISTEROUS SESSION

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Ex-Russian Prisoners Break Into German Hope

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Received Friday, 10.30 a.m, BERLIN, Sept. 22. In a tumultuous sessiPh oi the German Repi?blic's young Parliar ment at Bonn. tpday frequept references were me-de tp the former German territories. While they made no outright demands, several mihpr . party members taiked of1"' German. tie$ with Austria and Gzecljosloyakia, Sudentenland and parts of Ppland. They pinned their remarks to the statement by Chancellor Adenauer on lyionday that tl>e Republic wouM press "in a- lawful manner" for the return of the. territories held by Russia and Poland east pf the Oder-Neisse line. The boiscerous-nroGeedjnge came near to blows when two p.ermans, recently returned from Russian prison camps, forced their way past the guards and rushed on to the floor of the. House in tattered

uniforms to refijte the pro-Sovipt utterances of the Communist Deputy, Herr Max R'eimanrf. One of the soldiers, after showing Parliament his worn clothing, ■ said: "If I could reach Reimahn I w.ould twist his neck." Bedlam of ShQuts. A bedlam of shouts broke out; while another communist delegate, Herr Heinz Renner, shouted: "This is an organised propaganda cam~ paign." Before - this inte'rruption Herr Reimann had advised delegates to accent the Oder-Neisse line, which forms Germany's eastern border. OLher delegates 'had said that the territory that is now part of Poland shou 'd be returned to Germany. Scores of angry delegates banged their desks and shouted, "Pfui!" (for shame), and started a mass walkout as H.err Reimann spoke. Chancellor Adenauer persuaded the delegates to return to their seats only after much shouting. At this stage one of th.e ex*Russian prisoners said : "I was taken prisoner by the Rpssians at Stalingrad.-- I have no home and nothing to eat. Then to hear this man talk this way about leaving German territories under Russian control."