The Archive · 1930

Indignation in Moscow

Moscow, Feb. 9.

The acquittal on political grounds of the defendants in the Berlin ichervonetz case has provoked a storm of protest and indignation in the press which roundly condemns the German judges as biassed serts that their decision constitu 'a wanton insult on Soviet Russi Most of the papers call upon th Government to lodge a strong protest, at Berlin. The semi-official paper "Iavestia" insinuates that Soviet Russia is regarded by the Powers as an outlaw amongst the nations in dealing with which, as in war, all things are fair. The paper finally declares that the Russian public will view the outcome of the chervonetz trial not in a legal but in a politi and can certainly not help arriving at the. conclusion that the scales of German justice are weight ed against the Soviets—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.

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