Appeals By Counsel For Bulgarian Pastors
fll a.m.) LONDON, March 5. A typical defence argument in the trial of 15 Protestant pastors on charges of treason and espionage was that of counsel for Georgi Chernev, who said the pastors were merely links in the international Protestant missionary movement which was supported by the capitalists. “First come the missionaries, then the trade and, finally, the generals,” said counsel, says the British United Press correspondent in Sofia. Counsel for Georgi Vassov told the court: “We have no need of gallows for people who will help to establish socialism. The pastors are the prodigal sons who wish to come home.”
Some defendants in statements pleaded for light sentences. The sentences will be passed on Tuesday.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22888, 7 March 1949, Page 5
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