Scores of Functionaries and Diplomats Await Death Paris, Dec. 28 Mhe execution of about 250 Soviet functionaries and former diplomats take place in the near future declared "Lo Matin" in reporting that M. Stalin has refused a petition for an amnesty on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the October revolution.
The paper points out that of 159] members and prospective members of 00 the Union Cent 1 Executive Committee who took part in the party congress of 1936 only 23 were alive and at liberty for the recent elect! The remaining 136 exiled to Sibe; The large have been executed. or are in prison. owd of former Soviet officials who are now aw iting trial or execution trial at the Lubyanka prison, in Soviet A sador to Berlin, Constantin Yureneff, and the former Ambassador to Warsaw, M. Davtyan, well as the former secretary of the Central Executive, Committee, M
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