The ruthlessness with which the Russian Soviet Government is re-cried to be handling the investigations of the plot leading to the assassination of M. Kirov, a close friend of BIN. Stalin, It would seem that the, murder was the outcome of dissatisfaction within the Communist Party and it cannot, therefore, be attributed to the bourgeoisie which has usually been the target for Soviet attacks. Nevertheless, apparently reliable reports have indicated that executions on a grand scale have already' taken place. So much so. that the British Labour Party is understood to have been shocked ando have issued a re~ monstrance. Moscow is not in the east Tikely to trouble about the sus~ ceplibllities of the British Labour Party although that organization has been notoriously solicitous for Mos cow and has assiduously criticized any measures designed to prevent Soviet propaganda from interfering in the affairs of Great Britain. A piquant development fas now been Fevealed in the trial of M, Zinoviet for complicity in the murder of M. Kirov. Perhaps the scales are falling from. the eyes of some of Moscow's British admirers. Until fuller information be available it is impossible to ascertain how far uneasiness on M. Zinovief's account is Justiied. Meanwhile it is permis lo to record the view that terrorist methods of government are bad whether they be adopted by Red, Green, Black or Brown politics in fact they are not methods of government at all, but sheer fanatical brutality such as gangsters employ. If realization of that fact spreads, the eventual recovery of the world from its present restless nightmare may be nearer than it is sometimes possible to believe.
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