MOSCOW TRIAL
BRITISH PRESS OPINION
"GIGANTIC FARCE" "BIGGEST BURLESQUE IN OUR TIME" (United Prens Association—By E/eotrlo Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, oth December. The fact that the Russian death sentences have been commuted after all has persuaded most people that the treason trial at Moscow was a gigantic farce. The "Morning Post's" diplomatic correspondent says it is obvious that the trial was staged for internal political purposes. It was essential to give the ignorant peasantry and the gullible proletariat some valid reason for the obvious failure of the live years plan for industrialisation. •
The "Daily Express" says: "So ends the biggest burlesque on justice staged in our time. The whole thing has been a put-up job."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19301210.2.69
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 December 1930, Page 7
Word Count
113MOSCOW TRIAL BRITISH PRESS OPINION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 December 1930, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in