Released at Last The Bulgarian Communist, Dimitroff,‘ and his two
fellow-prisoners have been released, as Herr Hitler said they would be and General Goering said they would not be. It is just on a year since they were arrested and over two months since the highest Court in Germany declared them not guilty of the crime charged against them. The release has come far too late to clear Germany's name, though the case against her would have been more damning still if the imprisonment of the acquitted men had been continued longer in the face of the protests of the whole civilized world. The official explanation, that the men could not be deported because their own country, Bulgaria, would not admit them, will not hold water for a moment. Czechoslovakia agreed to accept them temporarily, which means that Germany could have got rid of them, and Poland long ago offered them a transit visa to Russia, where everyone knew they would always be welcome. In this case the pressure of foreign opinion has obviously done its work, but Ernst Torgler, the German Communist leader, who was pronounced equally guiltless, is still in confinement, a fate he shares with many other innocent Germans. *
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