SHAM TRIBUNAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21468, 17 April 1933, Page 9

SHAM TRIBUNAL

TYRANNY OF SOVIET TIME TO INTERVENE LONDON PRESS COMMENT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April IG, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 15 The Morning Post says: "It is not necessary to wait till the end of tho Moscow trial before denouncing the Court as a sham tribunal and a savage farce. Spasms of varying testimony wrung from Mac Donald prove that the Ogpu is applying strange and vicious pressure. " The honour, perhaps the lives, of six Englishmen aro being devilishly sworn away. We hope tho British Government will intervene, becauso tho moment has como to shako this tyranny." The Daily Telegraph says: " At tho most this so-called trial is a stench in the nostrils of the civilised world. It shatters tho illusion of thoso who fain would believe there was tho seed of social good in tho Bolshevik revolution." The Prime Minister lias arranged that while ho is 011 board the Berongaria on tho way to New York ho shall bo kept informed of the Moscow trial. He will receive coded wireless messages from the Foreign Office. Tho Sunday Times says: " It is safe to say that upon the events of the next few days may depend tho relations of Soviet Russia not merely with Great Britain but with the whole western world."