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Author Says Of War Book
By JOSEPH MacSWEEN ; LONDON t'CPI—Author Alex-l ander McKee said pris- ‘ oners of war were slain by ooth t Anglo - Canadian forces and by l the Germans in the Normandy campaign of 194..
Commenting on criticism of his new book. Caen: Anvil oi Victory. McKee said such kill- ings are a ha7ard of war at any time but they “happened in ;\or- I mandy rather more than else-. where," although not in ai‘ ‘
In! S. ‘ “The book asks why." he said. ‘ 'I am not condemning any i with men is toric battle had convinced himl ' twofold. Tliei first was “now or never" nature of the battle. 'The Germans were convinced (that defeat around Caen would mean eventual destruction of their homeland. The Allies saw the danger of being thrown
. the 'fright and fury" of the battle. one of the fiercest of the Sec- ond World War on any front. said McKee. 46. talking by tele- phone to The Canadian Press from his Hampshire home.
BASED ON OBSERVATION
»McKee. who has written sov- oral books on the war. said he wa private with a British unit attached to Canadian head- ‘ quarters during the Normandy campaign. His account is based; on his own observations. on talks l
with other soldiers during tnc l nadian prisoners were exccutedl campaign and later in the war. lby the Germans. and on 9 June the future of inter-city trans- shown the I portation is with the railways.
and on interviews diers since the war.
urge part Of (Taen. published in Canada by Ryt‘rson Press. Tor- . but McKee said received no commont from Can- ada. English reaction was gen—
cept for comments by two]
tormer war correspondents in Meyer. the only man prosecuted
with Cana~ l. . than, British and German sol~ bodies of a similar group of German prisoners. who had oh- Canadian activities form a ‘viously been lincd up and shot i made in this area. France. Ja-
through the head by the Cana— 1n
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The Daily Telegraph. a London newspaper.
“They don't seem to have heard of these killings—every- one else has." said McKee.
H. D. Ziman. who was Tue Tplegrapli's war correspondent with the lst Canadian Army, denies in a letter to the new;- papcr Tuesday that ever wrote of the Canadians committing atrocities. He quotes McKee as saying Ziman had in a ‘sort of back-handed way."
TOTAL DENIAL iman concludes his letter: “These horrible inctdents they really occurredl were iso- ated atrocities incompatible with either discipline or human— ity. And even 20 years after— wards I am perfectly certain that i never heard of such ac- tion during the “hole ca'mpaizn or allu'lod to ‘in a back
handed \i‘ay'."
David Woodward. former war correspondent with the Brit- ish BroadcaslinE Corporation, noted in a review of ('aen ear- lier that German SS Gen. Kur Meyer was sentenced for re sponsibility in the shooting of Canadian prisoners.
"‘.\‘lr. McKee apparently no- cepts \leyer's statement that he saw German prisoners who had
been lined up and shot by Ca-
nadians. but offers no further evidence.“ Woodward said. This apparently is a reference to a passage in McKee's book incidents after June ft. 1944. It says:
"on a June. a group of Ca i. club here.
Meyer was
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in a footnote. McKee cites as
authority a book co-written by Meyer. whose death
prisonment by the Canadians
The Patriarch: of Constanln- ople (Istanbull, spiritual lead- ers of all Orthodox faiths. are regar('.:i as hls succes- sors. (AP erepholo via cable from Rome).
as a war criminal by Carada, actually served nine Years WITNESSES SCARED
McKee said in a letter to the Telegraph that it is difficult to find evidence of Germans shoot- ing British and Canadian pris- oners because witnesses “would even now be risking a war crimes trial."
The British and Canadians were not so "reticent" and in some cases he had used their names in his 1 .
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clear that. on both sides, this was an unorganized affair. not always general, and most com— plicated to unravel because of the many ‘border-line‘ cases."
“I was myself a witness. later in the campaign. ho a typical example where there was some uncertainty as to whether a group of SS men coming out of a house were surrendering or not: they were in any case shot,
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., . sentence orally favorable to his book ex- i was commuted to 14 years’ im- that it has a future full of im-
down. It was not customary (in the Canadian army at. any rate) to give anyone the benefit of ithe doubt."
SUMMERSIDE Ten w1t-’ nesses Tuesday night were call-i ed to testify at the inquest into. the death of eith Edward; Cooke of Cape Wolfe. The 17- year-old died in hospital in Hal- ifax on Sept. 16 from injuries received in an automobile ac- cident at Green Hill, was the} jury's decision.
Cooke was driving the vehicle: at the time of the accident. Ap-l parently he lost control of thei car while executing the second cure of an s-bend in the high- way. It was believed that he‘
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i Seen For Rails ; VANCOUVER (GP) — The lpresident of the Canadian Tour— ! ist. Association believes the gov- ernment-operated Canadian Na- tional Railways can be oper- liated successfully and at a profi .
i Pierre Delagrave. also a CNR l vice-president. told 5e ‘
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on the head of Daniel 1‘. Foley. national commander of the American Legion at n «invention in Dallas. Tex,
Wednesday, lumber! bended the beret as a '33 from Canada.
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Cooke Inquest Held At S'side Tuesday
was thrown from the car when it rolled over.
Two men with him in the car at the time were not injured. They were Vincent O‘Halloran of Ernest Francis O'Connor of Cape Wolfe. Both testified at. the inquest.
Attending Dr. Charles Dewar of O‘Leary said he found the deceased in a ditch. bleeding from month. .iiostrils. ears an right eye. He said he a strong odor of alcohol on Cooke's breath after the youth
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ibottle caps in the car. though . no liquor of any kin . I Also testifying at the inquest lwcre Densyl Cooke of Bloom- field RR: John Louis Clements, 11'2lmsdale: Lorraine MacDonald lof Cape Wolfe: and Alma How- ' ard. Prince County Coroner Dr. Marvin Clark of Kensington 3 presided at the inquest. and
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Public." Probe Is Ordered Of Bell Telephone Company
By BEN WARD
OTTAWA (CM—A full-blown public scrutiny of the Bell Tele. phone Company of Canada's fi- nancial situation and the level of profit it should be allowed was announced . Th outcome is certain to be a scrap over the telephone rate struc- u
re. The board of transport com- missioners served notice
on Bell and the 1.800 Ontario and
Quebec communities it serves that the board plans a public
George R. McMahon acted for the Crown.
Members of the jury were: C. H. McMackin. foreman; W. S. Turner; E. W. Turner: Jame Baglole: H. J. MacWilliams: Harry Leard: and R. B. Bishop.
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uary. It is the first time in the his;
ftory of federal control over tele-
phone rates that the board has taken such an initiative. Pre- vious hearings have been the result of Bell applications for rate increases.
The last public hearing on
~‘Bell rates was in 1958. resulting
in a general rate increase Oct. 10 of that year.
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Since then, the board noted. it :has made periodic studies of Bell's financial picture and ob- served “certain changes." Be- cause of these changes. which it did not specify. it had de- cided that it would be in the
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