MAGNETIC FIGURE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1937, Page 10

MAGNETIC FIGURE

RADEK AT TRIAL j JESTS IN FACE OF DEATH | MORE CONFESSIONS (United Tress Association—By Electric TeleBrapli—Copyright.) (Received January 25, 2 p.m.) MOSCOW, January 24. When the Moscow trial was resumed, an astounded audience listened for four hours to Radek's revelation of plans for partitioning the Soviet and the restoration of the capitalist regime. Radek, who is the most magnetic figure in the trial, jested in the face of death. He expressed the conviction that Herr Hitler's advent inevitably meant war and the defeat of the Soviet. This led him to embark on a Machiavellian policy of the cession of the Ukraine to Germany and the Amur region to Japan, accompanied by the co-operation of the German General Staff during the war, after which his group hoped that the weakening of the Soviet by the Japanese-German hostilities would lead to another revolution. He admitted full moral and political responsibility for all the conspiring groups. He was convinced in 1935 that the Soviet would fail, but he did not wish to betray his comrades. He was induced to admit his guilt when he learned that all the others had confessed.