from a Pretoria reader
The state is trying to link Mr. Bertram Martin Hirson, and three other defendants, with the accused who appeared in the Rivonia trial, the Spear of the Nation., the -communist Party and the bomb explosion in the Johannesburg station, On November 18th Licut. Viktor, of the Security Police, said that he obtained a file of papers belonging to Hirson from the University of the Witwatersrand. He alleged that these documents had suggested the advis.abiof co-operation between all liberation movenents, including the Naticnal Committee of Liberation, etc., and had discussed the idea of having a unified command for these bodies. Another document mentioned an organisation which it called "S", The organisation was to establish a “revolutionary government" which would institute a system based on the socialist principles of redistribution of wealth and land,
Mr. Hirson is charged, together with Hugh Francis Lewin, Frederick Prager, and Raymond Eisenstein with conspiring with 25 other people to liberate the non-whites in South Africa by means of a campaign of sabotage designed to intimidate the Goverment. All four originally pleaded not guilty. Later, Hirson, Lewin and Eisenstein changed their pleas to guilty. On the first day of the trial the main prosecution witness was © man who claimed the accused had betraved him to the nolice.