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THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1938.
SIR BERNARD PARES,
who writes this article, is, as well qualified by wida know- lodge of Russia, ‘as any man to write on the trials and tribu. lations of the Russian.
With the "disgrace" of the Polar oxpert, Procfssar Otto Schmidt, and with recent wholesale arrests in the Soviot Union, this article becomes of immediate importante.
TH
THE series of trials and purges that has fol- lowed the assassina- tion
Stalin's of Kirov, deputy in Leningrad, has cast confusion among all foreign friends of Russia and has seemed to remove her out of Europe just when it was most important that she should be there. Docs any knowledge of Russia help towards an elucidation of this very distressing question?
Certainly we should discrimi- nale between the ordinary trials [of so-called "wreckers," whether of Russian or of foreign techni- cians associated with the first TIME FOR ACTION
Five Year Plan, and the later Hongkong is facing a very trials of Soviet politicians or serious problem in the eviction generals. In the first-named it of tenants, which is part of the was the Plan that was on trial; housing issue. It is more than and as it was assumed that the serious for the individuals con- Plan could not have been wrong cerned in some Cases. if the the object was to vindicate it by large correspondence which attributing any reaches the newspapers is any wilful disloyalty sort of reliable barometer. | employed.
und Their nothing short of desperate.
CRAPA arc
crises.
failure to the
of the agent
NO OBSTACLE FOR MODERN GUNS-Long ago when anclent Luan Castle was built in Shanst province, China, it might have resisted military attacks. But here is what Japanese artillery fire did to it. causing it to resemble a huge Swiss cheeso. Shells penetrating the wall and expleding within led to its capture. Japanese troops are at lower left of the plcture.
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WELCOME FOR ARCTIC HERO-Riding in a flower-decked automobile, accompanied by his wife, is Ivan Papanin. last to direct the Russian scientific expedition recently rescued from an les fice, as ha and his mates received a rousing welcome in Leningrad, Activities of the expedition are under ominous criticism in Moscow, with the Peoples' Council ordering a purge.
RUSSIA'S TRIALS
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many Russians that the acceptance of the re-have gone through a much hard- port by the Government might er experience of them. he construed by self-seeking consisted in incessant
unscrupulous landlords most interminable
official tions sometimes with threats to displace and kill the present Bukharin, two exceedingly clever "I, sinful man that I am."
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They that the politicians and generals
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nonsense,
were to be anticipated. This more difficult to have any single are for the most part reserved
I under. for his final speech. was the first of the many dicta- and simple answer.
countries It is here that enters a factor torships that have grown out of stand that in most the war and, in its first form, it except own preliminary which is common in Russia or, in the words of the greatest was the most challenging of all.
police. In these trials we have toyevsky, even "peculiar to our WE had full evidence of In such a movement there must examination is conducted by the master of this subject, Dos-
be continual rival claims to
no such evidence about its me- people." It is the habit of self- more more and "orthodoxy,"
thods as in the "wreckers' trials" accusation. taking the ordinary form of a
of the preceding period, and we How many Englishmen mean struggle for power. We need
mamble
of the the words thods are employed.
Litany, "Have mercy upon us, have no difficulty in believing may suppose that the same me- anything whatever when they sinners"? But in The theory of the "truth miserable and al- accused-practically all of them
my opinion, com- Russia that is a common form high lights in the Communist drug" is, in
Radek and of speech and even of thought; firmament-did really intend to plete
tenants of power.
men, were intellectually at their "I am a sinner," said General Sukhomlinov in his trial for trea- very best in their respective
son during the war, of which he These are political trials; and trials. Both of them, by sheer was certainly not guilty; "I have the Commission, but from which These trials are an expression the results will be presented to ability, to a certain extent forced deceived my sovereign," which some tenants unquestionably of the abnormal suspiciousness the public in the form which the their direction of the examina- was quite true. suffered would become in- of the Communist authorities rulers deem most advantageous tion upon the public prosecutor.
Dostoyevsky, in his wonderful to themselves. But that does Radek even utilised his last ples essay "Vlas," comments creasingly widespread. Latest themselves bred in the atmos-:
German developments indicate that these phere of conspiracy, never for- | not mean that accused are "not to get through to the outside whereas the drunken
public a message which he had boasts, the drunken Russian Indeed, the Russian wished to give to his scattered weeps.
often takes a definite pleasure in AND
ND what about the colleagues in some other way. reviling himself. Beletsky, the confessions? For that Where supplied, the verbatim Tsar's Director of Police, & the aspect of these trials reports give the impression of a cynical man of the world, when undergoing the humane examina- which leaves the foreign reader keen interplay of debate, and tion of the Provisional Govern- dumbfounded. Here it is much the invectives of the prosecutor ment, is profuse in his explana
indication of
was feared that the accused It sympathy. the injustices-undiscovered bykinsfolk.
fears were not groundless.
or his family and
getful of the world-hostility and which followed It will be admitted that the intervention question is one of considerable their assumption of power, and difficulty. It is difficult to make still surrounded by a capitalist But in the recent poli- hard and fast rules, and to legis- world. Mate in such a буду as totical and military trial this is a remove all cause for grievance common heritage and experience either on the part of landlords of accusers and accused,
that
guilty."
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or tenants. It will be admitted There is no presumptive im- GRIN AND BEAR IT
many landlords have probability in plots to seize the passed through an unsatisfac-power; on the contrary, they tory period from the point of--
view of investors; and it may be that the Government make some. argued that they are entitled to move, and as speedily as possi- this situation. take advantage of the fact that ble, to correct
the Colony is now suffering from Whether it establishes a com- a definite shortage of accom-mission or a court, selects B or a cadet to hear modation. Profits they are surely magistrate
making now. Profiteering they complaints, or takes some other are not, in general. But there corrective step, the public cares are cases where the landlord is little, so long as the machinery collecting substantial increases is efficient and causes for coin- in rent and is still dissatisfied plaint are removed." and threatening eviction, und be-
(Since this article was written! cause all landlords are not above the Colonial Secretary has given reproach, just an all tenants are notice that his offices will re- by no means paragons, it seems ceive from anyone affected par- there should be means of pro- ticulars of increases of rentals the Rents Commission
lecting both. The landlord since
has the courts, and the law is concluded its examination of the with him when he seeks to evict. situation March 23. Perhaps But there is nowhere to which this means that remedical action the tenant may turn for redress,
It of some sort is at hund, though he may have a good case,| certainly indicates that the
Government is alive to an un
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vitation from the President of the Court to write it all out; and this he does in a florid police style to the tune of over 400 pages, with pauses to ejaculate, "I was bathing in dirt," as most. certainly he was.
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THERE is an instinct of drama in such state- ments, and a Russian murderer will not be interrupted by the judge until he has finished. May a Russian
accuse himself of something he has not done? Yes, he may even do that.
And certainly he may tako, a rogue's pride in making himself out cleverer and more unscrupul- ous than he really was, a feature. which I have even noticed in some British autobiographies..
I have attempted no final ox- planation, and I do not bolleve that there is one. Certainly a great fight is going on in Soviet Russia. It is a fight within the Party; and one cannot but notice that those who are boing eliminated are not all, but for the most part, extreme revolu- tionaries and local bosso8;