COMMUNISTS: Defections from Red Ranks

Every week, in a continuous and often silent drama, men & women leave the Communist camp and cross over into the free world. Among them last week:

¶ Emil Horyna, Czechoslovak military attache in Istanbul, who asked the Turkish government for asylum.

¶ Corporal John Keith Waller, British Army, who deserted to Berlin's Eastern sector a year ago as a "fighter for peace" but returned to his unit in West Berlin last week, "fed up" with Communism. This week a British court-martial sentenced him to two years in jail.

¶ Horst Lommer, German author and topflight Red propagandist, who sought refuge in...

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