SOVIET JUSTICE.

Evening Star, Issue 21391, 20 April 1933, Page 11

SOVIET JUSTICE.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Presumably there must be an “ abysmal bottom ” to anything, and surely it has been reached by Mr Gilchrist’s letter last night dealing with present events in Russia. Quite apart from what one may feel as to the merits and demerits of the present trial, the Russian judicial system, the Soviet rule, or the culpability or non-culpability of the engineers at present being tried, does the call of the blood mean absolutely nothing to these “ Moscow Fanciers”? To any ordinary person, Communist or not, there is at the moment a truly heart-rending spectacle of brother Britons in dire trouble and distress (to say nothing of their terrified wives and families), and yet, in spite of this, tlio usual brigade reaches for a pen, not with any message of charity and hope for the wretched men of our blood in the grip of a power whoso best friends must admit to be despotic, but merely to prove that Russians must of necessity be right and anything British must be wrong. The stories of torture and duress they dismiss as “ propaganda,” whilst the slightest thing that can bo laid to the credit of the Soviets is blazoned forth as truth undiluted. Since this typo of writer has taken up a lot of space lately, with very little response, may I test the “ feeling of the meeting” by remarkingßritain and her sons for ever, right or wrong, and to perdition with a Jot of torturing Slavs.”—l am, etc.,

“ Bless Us All.”

April 19.