SOVIET ARMY PURGES
Elimination of Axis Spies
Rec. 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 30." "One of the chief reasons for the magnificent Russian resistance to the Nazi Juggernaut is that the purges carried out by the Soviet in the last decade have eliminated German and Japanese 'fifth columnists' and spies," writes Mr. Joseph Davies, former United States Ambassador to Moscow, in the "American Magazine."
"The famous treason trials and purges between 1935 and 1938, which the world construed as outrageous examples of barbarous ingratitude and hysteria, were justified in the light of present facts. The defendants were undoubtedly in the employ of the German and Japanese High Commands, and therefore the purges indicated Stalin's amazing foresightedness. Practically every device of the German 'fifth column,' as now known, was disclosed in the testimony of the Russian quislings, but as fajt as the Germans and Japanese built the Russians destroyed."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1941, Page 5
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