RUSSIANS HOAXED
THE RECENT “ELECTION” PRE-ARRANGED RESULTS CHILDISHLY ENGINEERED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 17. (Received Dec. 17, at 11.55 p.m.) The Times, in a leader, says: “ The Russians have proved, apparently to their own satisfaction, their ability to hold elections in which nobody has power to elect and they are now wordily celebrating a victory which they have not won. They are unlikely in the circumstances to experience difficulty in setting up a Parliamentary Government in which Parliament will be unable to govern, and the energies of the new deputies are unlikely to be taxed by anything more arduous than attendance at periodic meetings of a mutual admiration society. Yet it is doubtful whether more than a small impotent minority of Russians are yet capable of realising the manner and extent in which they were hoaxed. Outside Russia the election has been an obvious failure. Their machinery was so childishly engineered and the pre-arranged results were acclaimed with so vast a volume of pure gush that the Russians’ prestige, which firing squads have been busily destroying. has been still further impaired. All dictatorships are liable to seem droll sometimes, but Russia’s widely advertised attempt to pass off herself on democracy provided a spectacle half comic and half pitiful.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23378, 18 December 1937, Page 14
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