The Archive · 1937

THE SHOWMAN

Jan, 27.

State trials in Moscow so completely follow programme that it may be taken for granted that they can only have one, end and that is the condemnation of the accused.

In the: past either all the prisoners have admitted their guilt, or some of them have, with the result that sufficient evidence has been obtained to inculpate the rest of the men placed on trial. A striking example was the case of the British engineers some years ago, when at east one of them admitted his guilt a confession which he sought

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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