MOSCOW PBISONEHS
SOVIET'S LOST PRESTIGE
United Press . Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
(Received April 20, 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 19. The Metro.-Vickers Company has telegraphed to the Central Executive of the Soviet, urging commutation of the' sentences passed on the British engineers. ' Thornton's and Mac Donald's petitions may be answered tomorrow. A refusal is deemed to be unlikely. The Russians' counsel is also lodging a petition. Nordwall's wife has been permitted to accompany her husband to England though a Soviet citizen. If an embargo is imposed on Russian impor.ts Australia and New Zealand are not likely to benefit greatly because the Soviet exports. to Britain continue to decline drastically. The "Sun" understands that Thornton's and Macßonald's immediate release will cause Britain to reconsider and probably remove the embargo before it operates. ■ The "Times" Riga correspondent states that such a mild outcome of a trial on charges of espionage and wrecking is almost unprecedented. The Soviet undoubtedly regrets starting this mismanaged trial, which has done much to wreck the Government's prestige at home and abroad. It is believed that tho Government hopes to make the release of Thornton and MaeDonald. a question of bargaining.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1933, Page 12
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