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ng to politics: Exclusive interview with Sunday Times

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>RRALLSALISBURY, Saturday,

lies will be further stirred up this week fhe scene. His come-back will start the iistory.okend whether he should fight the coming

J constituency. “ J am afraid it has got to aren’t made it yet,” he told m e today.

tion, but quite frankly I am not one to be tremendously frightened by the legal niceties of it. Treason isn’t a word that one likes, but treason is rather associated with acts of sabotage”

ng coming in under a Ver, then you have really

[ have a new cover, then Jive really got to have a lader.”irstand that Sir Roy would Fade up his mind long ago [leading a new party if it

• been for the serious lU- his wife.

inding downher bitter personal decision in made this week by Sir 1 Vhitehead, present Leader 1 Opposition.pgar has, it is understood, Vo stand down as Leader,

•vis multi-racial Rhodesia ^arty is a nucleus of the Ing, in the interests of

■ 5 i a much wider [re i uncommitted Whites

R iparian ,Front inoo the new grouping, hodesia Party will im-

Ije^iy enter the fight for fovo forthcoming by-elec- s at Salisbury, in the Avon- xnd Arundel constituencies.battle is already being

“Southern Rhodesia’s little . election.”

FAMILY LEFT by FUGITIVES

Sir Roy said he fully supported independence for Southern Rhodesia, but was against a declaration unless the British Government broke the conven­tion of non-interference in Southern Rhodesian affairs.“In those circumstances I would• Continued on Page 9.

Bernsteins’ children didn’t

know

Bernsteins fear plot to blow up Lobatsi plane

Reasons

THE FAMILY the Bernsteins i left behind: Twenty-one- ,[year-old Mrs. Toni Strasourg (centre), eldest of the Bern­stein children, with Frances, 13 (left), and Keith, aged seven. After Lionel ^nd Hilda Bernstein fled this week Tv*ni decided to look after the younger children until arrangements could be made for them to join their

parents.

a wide-ranging, exclusive ew, Sir Roy gave me his 5 for breaking his retire- and some of his views on irn Rhodesia’s future, the us of Southern Africa and world beyond.

Roy made these points: vir. Ian Smith’s Government oon have its hand forced ndependence.Between £17,000,000 and i 000 of “frozen” money in ;sia would be released for pment and expansion if •sia could obtain stability.Sir Roy believes that, in of past disagreements, he work on a reasonable basis >r. Banda and Mr. Kaunda. The political instability of rn Rhodesia is hampering lie growth.He would not tolerate . interference in Southern sian affairs. _ ... .[e is convinced that a British • Government would be lously honest with Southern

From jOHN DOIC1 L O B A T S I, S a tu rd a y .

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b u rg .He and his wife arrived in

on Wednesday His trial is setlbatsi — without dow n for the Johannesburg they were, and

knowing who the Bernsteins

let.believe that in the next two hree months Mr. Smith s rnment will have its hand d on the issue of indepen- e and I believe that the •rnment should not put it- in the wrong by declaring >cndcnce unless it has been .strongly provoked, pw there is no prospect of \eotiating independence in kmstances, so I am led to Option that they are going “ and I feel that this

ky for Southern Rhode-

Tr Roy if he agreed ■bprt. ■ Trp^gqld. _the

Fal Chief "Justice, and ers in saying a uni- laration would be a

it’s an act of revolu-

Lobatsi exhausted and blist­ered after a nightmare cross- country hike and immediately began planning to leave for Britain.

But tonight a special police guard of four armed Ask an s was put on a twin-engined Bechuana- iand Airways plane at the air­field here.

It is feared that, because the plane may he used to fly the Bernsteins from Bechuanaland, an attempt may be made to blow

An ^airways spokesman told me tonight: “We will not fly them out unless the Protectorate authorities bless the trip. Even then we will not welcome doing it—and risking our necks at the hands of would- be saboteurs.” . .

The Bernsteins are anxious be­cause of sudden developments here. After a mysterious telephone call from Johannesburg, they left their hotel and went to the localcinema. ,, . . -While they were away, the chief of police, Captain “Chips” Knight, met the Lobatsi security chief, John Shepherd, without disclosing the reason for the emergency meeting.

The Bernsteins made their plans to flee South Africa in a few frantic days this week, I was told.

Lionel Bernstein, who was charged under the Suppression of Communism Act and on ban of R2,000, reported to the police in Johannesburg as usual at 2 p.m.

He is charged onRegional Court, two counts.

On Wednesday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Bernstein were picKed up at their Observatory home by a White man whom neither had ever seen before.

They drove at top speed through the night.

At midnight they were dropped in the bush some­where to the south of Lobatsi. Then—carrying only

bottles and a light travelling bag _the Bernsteins began their hikein the dark. .They trudged through thickbush country.

Thev had no idea where they were—and could only hope they were walking In the right direc- tion. . ,

At dawn—blistered, bruised and exhausted—they still did not know where they were. When they finally A

Native hut the occupant pointedout the border fence about ouyards away. . nolvAfter walking along a lonely bush track for a few hours, they found a Native driving a cart. They clambered on ana tne Native drove off across country.

The Bernsteins still had no idea of their whereabouts. In the early afternoon they stopped at a hut in the bush and were Introduced to a White Bechuanaland agricul­tural officer, who had been on an inspection tour.The official drove them to Lo-

booked into the Cumberland Hotel here on Thursday evening.

The Bernsteins’ flight, a friend told me, was not organised by any political organisation.

“I cannot say whether they paid for the assistance, but the breaking of his house arrest and bail conditions cost Lionel Bern­stein R2,000. He hoped to raise money on his Johannesburg home —which is valued at aboutR10,000. ...

“The parting with the chil­d ren — and the family’s pet dog, a black cocker spaniel called Nyama (the black one)_was very sad and tearful.“But the Bernsteins hope to

make arrangements for their younger children — who have passports — to join them when they are settled down.

‘I know they hope to go back to South Africa—they both love it—one day when people there are treated as human beings.

S.R.’s Redmanchampion1

BELFAST, Saturday. — Jim Redman, the Southern Rhodesian motor cyclist, clinched the 350 c.c. world championship for the third successive year today when he won the event at the Ulster Grand Prix. _ _ . . . —_ ———

By MARGARET SMITH

Lionel bernstein andhis wife, Hilda, left their

home in Observatory, Johan­nesburg, some time on Wednes­day evening after they had put the two younger children to bed and kissed them goodbye.

In the morning father and mother had gone.

Their elder daughter, M rs Toni Strasburg, is taking care of the younger children.

“We had no Idea where our parents were until we received a telegram from Bechuanaland on Thursday saying: In L°batsi. All well,’ ” Toni Stras- burg said yesterday.Yesterday morning the child­

ren received a telephone call from their parents which indi cated they would be moving off” as soon as possible.

“We have no Idea how they got to Bechuanaland, nor do we know if they were helped to escape or what route they took, Toni said.

3 c h i ld r e n

Her young husband, Ivan Strasburg, a B.A. student at the University of the Witwatersrand, said that they would be staying on in the Bernsteins’ home for the time being.

“Overnight we have acquired a house, a car and three kids, he

Said The eldest son, Patrick, aged 15. Is at boarding school u» Swaziland. Frances, aged IS. ami seven-yekr-old Keith are at school in Johannesburg. Frances said she was going on

holiday and would then decide when to join her parents. Keith will be sent on to his parents as soon as they are “settled prob-

_,a;bly in London.Since the end of the Rivonia

'trial, when Mr. Bernstein was acquitted on all charges, he has been unable to get work of any

He was under 12-hour house arrest, confined to the Johan­nesburg magisterial district and had to report to the police every weekday.Hilda Bernstein was the editor

of a child guidance publication, but had to stop work when she was banned—and thus prevented from w r i t i n g . ______ _

TRAIN FOR RHODESIA

free Neville RubinMuriel and two-year-old

wTere put aboard a train d for Gwelo, where they are ,o arrive tomorrow morning.Heddy said: “Mr. Rubin is accompanied by Portuguese y police as far as the rn Rhodesia border. I London today to say the

uese authorities had de- to release Mr. Rubin and him to Southern Rhodesia uthorities in Rhodesia have nformed.”Rubin is a British citizen

he holder of a British pass- But he was born in South

studied at the University

of Cape Town, was president of Nusas in 1958-59, and was a mem- Der of the South African LiberalParty.

For three months he has been doing research work in Swaziland for the School of African and Oriental Studies.

He and his wife, Muriel, and his two-year-old son, Guy, now on their way to Northern Rho­desia, intend to stay there for some time.He was arrested at the Mozam-

bique border on suspicion of being a political fugitive from South Africa.

NEVILLE RUBIN . . on way to Gwelo.

Dr. V. on

iron curtain

by PressVRYBURG, Saturday

THE Prime Minister, Dr. Ver woerd, said at Vryburg to­

day that there was an iron curtain of the Press in South Africa which tried to keep the truth away from the English- speaking section of the popula­tion. , . .Dr. Verwoerd, speaking at

an open-air meeting on the showgrounds, said he heartily welcomed all English-speaking people not only as members of the National Party but as members of the South African nation.“We fully understand the prob-

lems they are faced with when they have to decide where they stand because in South Africa we also have an iron curtain, he said.“There is a so-called iron curtain in Russia behind which people are herded away from the rest of the world. In South Africa It is a Press curtain be­hind which the minds of the English-speaking people are kept away from the rest of the world.I—Sap a.

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TONI BERNSTEIN, daughter of Lionel Bernstein, with her husband, Mr. Ian Strasburg, waits for the plane which, to

them, means “Goodbye, South Africa.”

TONI BERNSTEIN FLIES TO U.K.

T'ONI BERNSTEIN, 21, daughter of Lionel Bernstein,!left by air for London on Wednesday with her husband,

Mr. Ivan Strasburg — a former 90-day detainee.Only two friends were at ^

Smuts Airport to see them oft: Toni left on an exit permit — which means that she; cannot return to South Africa.!

Her husband, .22,. i n arts student, who left on an ordinary passport, told the SUNDAY TIMES minutes before he left: “I don’t think the police realised I still had my passport.”

He said he would continue his studies in England and return “when there is an African government ruling here, and not before.”

He added: “I may be out of kthe country but I shall fight for [what I believe in.”

The couple will stay with Toni’s parents in London, who

fco^j^outh Africa last year, stein was the only Ifcted at the Rivonia

the Republic had a right to Twhat was their own.—Sapa.____

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general inciAt one s t a g j^ S le n ^ brok

out when a line ot strikers n^keted a Johannesburg cut­ting works. Police were called after a foreman claimed he had been molested, punched and kicked.

‘Unacceptable’impasse in the dispute was

reached on Thursday 'A union officials rejected an otter of R18 a month in allowances fo fringe benefits for each worker and a consolidated benefit fund.

The union asked tha* th|Z n t h 1 The'association,0 in turn, y I0NEL BERNSTEIN, the only

sa,"sr*J2-“M 2their stocks of diamond rings and jewellery.

Tbp uresent loss of foreignexchange-estimated at R500,000a week—is expected to be recovered in part when the dis­pute is settled because increasing overseas demand for cut stones.

in the internal affairs of other

C° “If the Imperialists dare to un­leash a war, that war will end in complete destruction o

on came as

Bernsteins i cc(u>f r o m S. A f r i c a ' *

Kail strike talks in N. Rhodesia

From Our Correspondentt IISAKA. — Government offi­

cials and railway union leaders -,re to meet here today in a

lovernment attempt to end orthern Rhodesia's five-day-°kl

I strike. Yesterday the Rhode- oian Railways Board met in a special session in Bulawayo.

No trains are running vet in Northern Rhodesia and the Government is concerned about the suspension of the country’s transport system fur- ther undermining an already serious security situation.

The strike was called in pro­test against long hours time and included a demand tor

pay rise.

hasfle* South Africa and is now t nhatsi Bechuanaland. And nis freedom is likely to cost him R2000 bail money which will nrobably be estreated by court.

He was awaiting trial on tw charges under the Suppression of Communism Act . when granted bail on compassionate grounds in the Johannesburg Magistrate s

C°Not conditions were made as he was already under 12* ° “r arrest. His trial was to start onSe« d r hiswife who are both banned under the Suppression of Communism Act arrL ,n a Bechuanaland on Thursday m car with a Lobatsi registration number. Bernstein, who is South African by birth, had no trave

d°The'^couple fled their home in

, Regent Street, Observatory,I Johannesburg, on Wednesday , night, leaving two of thenr chu

dren, Frances (13) and Heith (7), who are now being looked after by their elder daughter, Toni, and her husband, Ivan Strasburg.

1 “My parents will send for the children as soon as they have settled somewhere, Mrs. Stira^

j burg said yesterday. I do not know what my father s plans are, but I should imagine he will try to start an architectural practice in England.

in se c u r e

“He has not had a practice since before the Rivonia trial,she told Sunday Chronicle Also,it is too insecure here for the children—there was too much pressure. And, of cours® tDa^ was in iail for 11 months. 1

i think these are the reasons why *— -• —----------------- ---------. 5 he left.” .

G a rd en m o n u m e n t g . havefailed to report to Marshall

! Square since Wednesday. He was j required to do so by 2 p.m. each weekday.

“My father had supper^ with us on Wednesday evening,’ Mrs Strasburg said. “The following morning he and my mother were gone. I don’t now how they travelled to Lobatsi as they i not use the family car.”

LOURENCO MARQUES.The South African historian, Hr. Willem Pont, chairman ol the Louis Trichardt Trek Monument Fund and of Simon van der Stel

I Foundation is visiting Lourenco 1 Marques to discuss the memorial garden being laid out as a

j memorial to Louis Trichardt w (died here in 1838. The garden was designed by a South African

i architect.—Sapa

Bernsteins got away

word was ‘Guardian ’

gate, I was approached by a tall, hand­some, middle-aged man.

I said I was from the Guardian and we went into the Planetarium yard. To my surprise his companion turned out to be a woman. When I studied these people closely I found that they were White, not Coloured, as I had expected.

I told them to occupy the rear seat in the car. I shared the front seat with my nephew.

Something kept telling me that some­thing would go amiss somewhere. I found myself re-planning the escape silently along the way.

I avoided using the two previous routes. Instead of cutting across Zeerust, I branched through Lichtenburg. Some­thing was asking me inwardly: “Are you sure of yourself today?” I simply told the little voice within me: “Well, we’ll just have to hope for the best and be damned to everything.”

We got our first shock just outside the small diamond town of Lichtenburg. There were two police cars. I drove straight up to the police, thinking they would stop us because it was already late at night — 10 o’clock.

What made me fear being stopped was the fact that the police were in the habit of stopping “foreign” cars and searching them thoroughly in case the owner traf­ficked in dagga or stolen goods.

But our luck had not run out because we were not stopped.

The police, as I saw, seemed to be engrossed in a conversation. They ob­viously had no time for stopping a car like “The Mysterious Impala”.

I slowed down the car to 30 miles per hour to avoid suspicion. We were only stopped twice by the robots in town. Our road to Mafeking lay invitingly ahead, and the car was willing to go. I told the Bernsteins that we were to avoid driving through Mafeking town and, instead, slice off along the road to the African township, across the Coloured township, over the level crossing to Bakonestad; from there to Montsioastad and go straight to Ramosadi — a small village.

PARKED UNDER TREE

From there, I explained to Rusty Bernstein, we would connect with the main road for Pitsani, in the Kalahari- like desert.

Mrs. Bernstein had remained quiet all the way from the Planetarium. She start­ed talking only when we joined the main road.

I told her that we were five miles out of Mafeking. I noticed that she was look­ing back and seemed to be thinking that it was a big sprawling town. I explained that it was, because it was a junction for three railway lines to Kimberley, Rho­desia and Johannesburg.

Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein, a 44-year-old Johannesburg architect — pictured with his wife, Hilda — was acquitted in the Rivonia sabotage trial last year, but re­arrested and was charged under the Sup­pression of Communism Act. He was on R2.000 bail when he fled the country.

Mrs. Bernstein passed over some of the polony she and her husband were eating, but I said that I didn’t eat anything made from pig’s flesh.

My nephew came to life for the first time, saying: “I know this kind of polony, uncle. It is the same as that which auntie buys for us.” We ate the polony. Again there was silence in the Impala as we drove toward the “parking spot”.

At this stage I told the couple to pre­pare themselves because we were near­ing the spot where we would be forced to abandon the car. We drove a couple of yards further— and I turned the car to face where we came from, parking it under a weeping willow tree.

We spt off on foot. This time I did not open the bonnet but left my nephew to guard the car. I normally never do the same thing twice.

OVER THE WIRE

We did not walk along the path I used with the Septembers. We travelled along a level ground with trees and elephant grass. This was a non-stop walk. We were lucky enough because nothing dis­turbed us while we slogged the five miles. I reached the “line” of safety with them.

This time I had an urge to take the refugees straight to the frontier wire. This I did because — on the two previous occasions — I had the fear that the wire was electrified. I did not touch it but stood about ten yards away and watched the Bernsteins as they crossed to their freedom.

I bade them farewell before they crossed over. I turned back to join my nephew at the car. We drove straight home.

/ Reports from Lobatsi later said that after crossing the frontier wire, the Bernsteins trudged on through the bush in the dark, hoping they were going the right way.

At dawn blistered, bruised and exhausted, they still did not know where they were. When they reached a hut, the man there pointed to the border fence only 50 yards away. They must have been walking in circles!

They decided to trek on along a lonely bush track. At last they found a man driving a cart. They climbed on.

The cart took them across country and in the early afternoon they came across

Turn over

I RAN ESCAPE ROUTE How the

The pas.By Arthur ‘McClipper’

Magadlela

Fischer wasn’t

under my bed!

WELL, I’d got away with it twice. Now I was being asked to guide a third party of political refugees through the bush to the place where they could cross the

frontier wire into Bechuanaland.I wasn’t too willing this time. On the first- run, when I got Reggie and Hettie

September away, as I told in DRUM last month, there had been a puff adder and savage dogs to face in the dark on the five-mile trek through the bush from the road to the border. On the second, when I helped Dr. Graham Meidlinger and Oswald

Dennis to escape, my arthritis-ridden legs had almost given in.

Now I was being asked to go through it all again. I would rather have spent the night in bed, but I had a court case com­ing up and I needed R150 for lawyer’s fees, so I decided to take the risk again.

I didn’t know it at the time, but the people I was to smuggle out of the coun­try were “Rusty” Bernstein, the acquitted Rivonia triaiist, and his wife, Hilda.

No names were mentioned on the day in August last year when the Coloured woman who was their go-between came to see me. (She was not the woman in­volved in the other escapes).

She wanted to know if my car, “The Mysterious Impala”, was in perfect con­dition for a long run. There must be no risk of breakdown, she said, because “certain people” wanted to cross the border into Bechuanaland.

I told her that “the ’64 model was all right”. In fact, my car is 16 years old with 200,000 miles on the clock and I call it The Mysterious Impala because it is a mystery to me how it keeps up its brand-new performance!

‘3SWM

.

BRAM FISCHERA FTER Braam Fischer disappeared

(writes Arthur Magadlela), people who had read my escape route story in DRUM last month began asking me: “Where have you hidden him?” and visitors to my house would jokingly look into cupboards and peer under the beds.

Of course, Fischer wasn’t there.I’m no politician. The only link I’ve ever

had with politicians was when I volun­teered — for money — to take the six people I’ve named out of the country.

Since I gave up these missions I have led a normal life. The reason I’m telling my story to DRUM is to let people know that I realise what a serious offence it was to get mixed up with the escape business.

# Fischer, central figure in the Johan­nesburg anti-Communist trial, jumped bail and vanished last month. There were early reports that he was in Bechuanaland, but the man seen there turned out to be his double. — EDITOR.

WE MET AT 7 P.M.

I agreed to do the job. for R150 and we discussed the escape plot. I said that if there was a woman in the party she must dress casually in slacks and the men must wear sports clothes because the journey was rough. We’d have to aban­don the car and take to the jungles and hills by night.

I asked whether a meeting place had been arranged. The woman said she was going back to tell “the two people” that I had agreed to transport them across the border.

It was arranged that the people would be picked up opposite the Planetarium, behind the University of the Witwaters- rand, in Johannesburg, at 7 p.m.

I asked how I would know them. S. said the password was “Guardian”. I took it that I was the guardian because I was going to guide them to the safety of the borders. I asked for R20 for petrol. Then, on August 5, I took my nephew — my mascot — with me and went to the Plane­tarium at 7 p.m. as arranged.

As I was about to go in the Planetarium

I RAN ESCAPE ROUTE Continued

a White Bechuanaland agricultural officer.

He drove them to Lobatsi — not know­ing who they were — and they booked into a hotel there.

Eventually they flew to Lusaka and then on to Dar-es-Salaam and London].

After this I went to Kimberley for my case. The time was very short to enable me to get a lawyer. A friend advised me to battle the case alone without the help of a lawyer “because,” he said, “the case is not a serious one.” I was senten­ced to two months’ jail.

Two weeks later, while I was serving the sentence in Kimberley, I was called by the Chief Warder. He said I was not to do labour any longer because there was another charge pending against me.I asked the warder what it was. He said I shouldn’t bother about it. I would be informed in due course.

‘YOU KNOW PLENTY’

I had a sleepless night asking myself: “What have I done?” “What could have gone wrong?” “Why am I being charged so mysteriously?” The next morning I was called by a lieutenant and another officer in the Security Branch from the East Rand. I was questioned at length about the Bernsteins, the Septembers and about Dennis and Dr. Meidlinger. I denied all knowledge about them.

The lieutenant was very steady. He gave me enough rope to hang myself and enough time to untie the rope. In the end he said: “We should go back to Jo­hannesburg and talk this matter like men there, don’t you think so?”

We went to Vryburg. I was no longer wearing the prison tunic, but dressed in my own clothes. From Vryburg we went to Mafeking, where we spent the night. The following morning the same lieu­tenant came to me and said he was giving me the last chance.

He said: “I put it to you that you know plenty. I want to be frank with you. I am going to say a few words may be you will remember the important things. You know who brought the Septembers to you.” I denied it. “You know who brought Dr. Meidlinger and Dennis to you.” I shook my head and said I did not know.

THE ONLY MAN

He went on: “You know who brought the Bernsteins as well.” I said I knew nothing.

“I am not asking you, McClipper. I am only telling you in the hope that this will refresh your memory,” he said. “I will now give you a shock.

“First you were the only man in this refugees’ plot and there were women in­volved.” He called a certain woman’s

name — one of two women who brought the refugees to me. He named the sec­ond and the third. When he named the last woman I could feel a stream of imagi­nary blood running from my head down to my feet.

I asked the lieutenant what these women told him. “Oh, do you know them now?” he asked me with a smile. “What was your password at the Planetarium?”

I said: “Oh, you also know that, too?” He replied: “Not only that. I, too, know plenty.”

He said he had no wish to take down my statement there and then but was after winning my confidence. He reached for his inside jacket pocket, produced a photograph and asked me: “Is this not you, McClipper?” I said it was myself!

“Where do you think I got this photo­graph from?” he asked.

“I don’t know where you got it from but you police know better.”

“If you know that we know better, tell us everything. Let’s get to the border post where you dropped these people.” I got the shock of my life. I thought I was in hell.

‘SHOW ME THE ROUTE’

The lieutenant said: “I want you to take me to the secret route and show me how you did it. After that we will get home and I will start taking Sown the statement.”

I decided to speak the truth because I did not want to involve my companions, and I did not involve them. For what I said was what they had already men­tioned to the police.

I was asked by the police officer how I came to know this secret route. I told him I knew it because I grew up in the Mafeking district. We used to come up to this end to buy cattle early in 1933, I confessed.

He asked me when last I was at this place and how many times I had come to it between 1933 until the present day. I told him I was there 17 years ago and three times after that. The last time I came to the area, I said, was a few weeks earlier when I transported the refugees.

I went to the secret route with three White police officers. We travelled by day, this time, as far as the “line” of safety. They asked me to demonstrate how I did it. There was no demonstration, but I spoke the truth.

The next morning I was brought to Benoni, escorted by the lieutenant, and I made a statement willingly. He was satisfied with my statement.

On September 1 ,1 was taken to Cinde­rella Prison, in Boksburg, to serve the remaining days of the two months’ im­prisonment I got from Kimberley.

• Magadlela says that after being held by the police for questioning under the 90-day law, he was released.

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