If the latest reports from Moscow are correct, the mass political trials which have astounded the world are no longer a farce they are becoming a form of mania. In no other country has there been witnessed such a complete and thorough process of judicial annihilation and it seems that there are several more^generations of Soviet officials doomed to take their last walk across the dreaded Lubianka courtyard. The majority of the men executed as a result of the last trial were officials responsible for the evidence and conduct of the previous trial, and now it is indicated with grim irony that the witnesses who convicted these officials at the last trial are themselves to face trial in the near future and the almost inexorable decision of Soviet military courts—death, Without desiring to add to the mockery. with which justice is treated nowadays, it might be said that it only needs the trial and conviction of the judges to make the whole course of annihilation complete. It is reported that three new trials are likely to be held and the name of M. Bogomolov, former Ambassador to China, is mentioned in connection with the proceedings. A secret trial is also reported at which a number of military and naval leaders will be tried.. They include Marshal Yegorov, General Alknis, former Soviet aviation commander, and Admiral Orlov, former commander of the Baltic Fleet, and the third trial prediction mentions the names of a large number of former statesmen and diplomats who have been in prison for some time. Service to the state in Soviet Russia must have an extremely precarious basis but the number of its victims does not seem to diminish.
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