DESPAIR AND SUICIDE
_ -o CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA LONDON. Jan. 14. So numerous have been the suicides among specialists since the staged trials of a ' number of professors, charged with, and sentenced for, alleged conspiracy against the Soviet, that the Commissar of Education, M. Lunueharskv, has been forced to intervene, says the Riga correspondent of the limes. Lnm«jharsky has warned the Red Assembly against recklessly destroying '•this living capital, this human ore.' because there is much good metal among the dross. The Soviet should not deal blows indiscriminately, "lest we smash the vessel, without, which it would be impossible to live." Lunacharsky admitted that many learned men still said they could not be expected to betray others, claiming that they are chemists and biologists, not spies." He declared that such scruples must. be. overcome and urged scientists to join the Soviet, which is still dependent on the scientists inherited from the old' world
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 11
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