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- vie 7 a oe INDEXED - 72 | Of -2 7 NOT RECORDED . 43 JAN 6 1949 - Leader on Trial Says That Deat of Bernadotte Was Surprise ACRE, Palestine, Dec. 14 (Reu-! ‘ters)—Nathan Friedman ‘repute eader of the forme ‘band, said today that the murder “ ‘of Count Folke Bernadotte, Pales-: . “tine Mediator, came asa complete : Surprise to him. ‘Mr. Yellin, together with Mata-| ti Schmnuelevitz, is being tri > 'By an Israeli military court/ for J ‘his membership of an illegal or- bes ‘ganization, the Stern band, recent- G \ ay rae by the Teraeli ‘Govern:| * { He maintained, in 8 ‘six-hour japeech in his own defense, that his trial was the equivalent of France's trying the Maquis (French resist- ance force) instead of Marsh eetain (former Vichy chief).. . His counsel had said that us qu a,, 2ve4 + CONTAI ty INFORMATION “HE | 1s Sas "AIG a This is a clipping from page of the ~ New York Times for , - 2 Clipped at the Seat of Government Is . -h