JU T ONE Nrws ITEM There is no question about the violation of human rights. Vice President LYsnoN JOHNSON went to Berlin to tell the people there of Americas moral support. President Kennedy. in a message to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. said the closing of East Berlin border restricting the movement of refugees underlined the struggle "for the protection of freedom. for human rights and for the principle of the selfdeterminaiton of peoples." But here is a Reuters News Service Item of Monday of this week: "An East Berlin court jailed five men for terms ranging from 8% years hard labor to 8 months Imprisonment. They were arrested August 18 and 14 when demonstratIng near the sector border against the East German border controls." When an electric sign was erected in West Berlin a few days ago to carry in big letters the news of the world. persons in East Berlin who tried to read it from a distance were arrested for demonstrating. East Berlin police have started. moreover. to move families out of houses which l6ok out on West Berlin streets. The Instances cited are but a few of the many evidences of cruelty and inhumanity imposed on the East German people.
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