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May 5, 1938, Sybil Ruby, beloved wife of R. H. Challinor.
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SIR BERNARD PARES,
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who writes this article, is as well
qualified, by wide knowledge of Russia,
as any man to write on the trials and tribulations of the Russian,
With the "diagraco" of the Polar. expert. Professor Otto Schmidt, and with recont, wholesale arrests in the Soviet Union, this article becomes of
immediate Importance.
HE series of trials and purges that has fol- lowed the assassina- tion of Kirov, Stalin's 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. Does any knowledge of Russia help towards an elucidation of this very distressing question?
بله
or
"1. sinful man
power:
that I am"
accusation.
Certainly we should discrimi- Inate between the ordinary trials of so-called "wreckers," whether of Russian or of foreign techni- cians associated with the first Five Year Plan, and the later trials
of Soviet politicians THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1938.
generals. In the first-named it 15 TODD was the Plan that was on trial; TIME FOR ACTION
and as it was assumed that the
that in most countries toyevsky, even "peculiar to our Hongkong is facing a very Plan could not have been wrong
un the contrary, they stand
our own preliminary people." It is the habit of self- serious problem in the eviction the object was to vindicate it by
attributing any failure to the were to be anticipated. This except
was the first of the many dicta- examination is conducted by the of tenants, which is part of the
wilful disloyalty of the agent It is more than employed.
torships that have grown out of police. In these trials we have housing issue.
How many Englishmen mean the war and, in its first form, it no such evidence about its me- serious for the individuals con-"
was the most challenging of all. thods as in the "wreckers' trials" anything whatever when they the words of the cerned in some
cases, if the
In such a movement there must of the preceding period, and we mumble large correspondence which
WE had full evidence of be continual rival claims to may suppose that the same me- Litany, "Have mercy upon us, miserable sinners"? But in renches the newspapers is any
the methods used to "orthodoxy," more and more thods are employed.
Russia that is a common form sort of reliable barometer.]this end in the Metro-Vickers taking the ordinary form of a The theory of the "truth of speech and even of thought; crises, and trial, and very many Russians struggle for power. We need drug" is, in my opinion, com-I, sinful man that I am." Their cases are
no difficulty in believing plete nonsense. Radek have gone through a much hard- have nothing short of desperate.
and I am a sinner," said General experience of them. They that the politicians and generals Bukharin, two exceedingly clever Sukhomlinov in his trial for trea- When the much-discussed re-consisted in incessant and al- accused-practically all of them men, were intellectually at their
son during the war, of which he port of the Rents Commission
interminable interroga- high lights in the Communist very best in their respective was tabled it was the object of tions sometimes with threats to firmament-did really intend to trials. Both of them, by sheer was certainly not guilty: "I have deceived my sovereign," which sharp criticism. It was felt the accused or his family and displace and kill the present ability, to a certain extent forced
tenants of power.
their direction of the examina- was quite true. that the acceptance of the re-kinsfolk.
Dostoyevsky, in his wonderful that These are political trials; and tion upon the public prosecutor. port by the Government might These trials are an expression
construed by self-seeking of the abnormal suspiciousness the results will be presented to Radek even utilised his last plea essay "Vlas," comments and unscrupulous landlords of the Communist authorities the public in the form which the to get through to the outside whereas the drunkon German Indeed, the Russian is an indication of official themselves bred in the atmos- rulers deem most advantageous public a message which he had boasts, the drunken Russian sympathy. It was feared that phere of conspiracy, never for- to themselves. But that does wished to give to his scattered weeps.
getful of the world-hostility and not mean that accused are "not colleagues in some other way. often takes a definite pleasure in. the injustices-undiscovered by
which intervention
followed guilty."
Where supplied, the verbatim reviling himself. Beletsky, the Tsar's Director of Police, a the Commission, but from which their assumption of power, and
reports give the impression of a keen interplay of debate, and cynical man of the world, when some tenants unquestionably still surrounded by a capitalist suffered would become in- world.
AND what about the the invectives of the prosecutor undergoing the humane examina- But in the recent poli-
confessions? For that are for the most part reserved tion of the Provisional Govern- ment, is profuse in his explana- creasingly widespread. Latest tical and military trial this is a
the aspect of these trials for his final speech. developments indicate that these common heritage and experience
of accusers and accused. fears were not groundless.
be
It will be admitted that the question is one of considerable difficulty. It is difficult to make hard and fast rules, and to legis-| late in such ♫ way ጊዜ to remove all cause for grievance | either on the part of landlords
cr
most
is
tions of disgusting acts of him- which leaves the foreign reader It is here that enters a factor
self and others, which can often dumbfounded. Here it is much which is common in Russia or he verified from other sources, There is no presumptive im- more difficult to have any single in the words of the greatest and accepts with pleasure an in- probability in plots to seize the and simple answer. I under- master of this subject, Dos-vitation from the President of
the tenant may turn for redress, though he may have a good case, save to his landlord.
It is suggested, therefore.
or a cadet to hear
or tenants. It will be admitted that the Government make some that
landlords have move, and as speedily as possi- many
ble,
to correct this situation. passed through an unsatisfac tory period from the point of Whether it establishes a com- or a court, selects a view of investors; and it may be mission argued that they are entitled to magistrate take advantage of the fact that complaints, or takes some other the Colony is now suffering from corrective step, the public cares little, so long as the machinery definito, shortage of accom- modation, Profits they are surely is efficient and causes for com- making now. Profiteering they plaint are removed.
[Since this article was written are not, in general. But there are cases where the landlord is the Colonial Secretary has given collecting substantial increases notice that his offices will re- in rent and is still dissatisfed ceive from anyone affected par- and threatening eviction, and be- ticulars of increases of rentals the Rents Commission cause all landlords are not above since reproach, just as all tenants are concluded its examination of the by no means paragons, it seems situation March 28. Perhaps there should be means of pro- this means that remedial action tecting both. The landlord of some sort is at hand. indicates that han the courts, and the law is certainly
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"I now pronounce you gas and oiler, I mean man and wife!"*
pages, with pauses to ejaculate, "I was bathing in dirt," as most certainly be was.
THERE is an instinct of drama in such state- mente, 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 take a rogua'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 autobiographics.
I have attempted no final ex- planation, and I do not believe that there is one. Certainly a great fight is going on in Soviet. Russla. It is a fight within the Party; and one cannot but notice that those who are being eliminated are not all, but for the most part, extreme revolu...... tionaries and local bosses.'
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