Dutch Socialist Helps G.i's to Desert

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The French press agency reported shart a member of the Pirst. Chamber of the Netherlands Parliament.said, on June'21 that he belonged to a secret Dutch group which has helped between 10:.and 20 American soldiers stationed in Germany to desert through Amsterdam to Paris in the past year. Mr. Oscar M. Boetes, a Quaker, a member of the Socialist Pacifist Party, said that the group had contacts in Paris who saw to it that the American deserters were housed on French farms. The soldiers included troops wishing to avoid service in acelycm, “8 consolentigue objectors, generally. Mr. Boetes eeplielned that if he was, ‘Be aey group member willing to reveal his identity, it was because as a. member of Parliament he enjoyed a certain degree of immunity; . but he doubted whether his group's activities were punishable under Dutch Law. He said that the group began opera-— ting in June last year. It included Provos and Socialist Youth, all of whom were active in organizing demonsnatsais against the war in Vietnam, He was the only: Quaker ‘member. |