TOPICS OF THE DAY
The Moscow Trial. After I lie billerness of invective and malicious action which characterised the opening and earlier stages of the trial of the arrested Vickers engineers in Moscow, the senlenees imposed by the Court form almost an anti-climax. The mildness of the penalties imposed is a betrayal of the Soviet's realisation that its methods had overstepped the mark of international and common decency. The Soviet lias learned, perhaps, what other nations with a lesser degree of civilisation have learned in the past —that the British people will he I lie first to open their doors to trade, and tiic In" I to punish by whatever means in their power any injustice, partieul.-rl\ to their own t iti/.ens. Despite the mildness of the sentences, Britain is not yet snii.-liod. The very fact of arresting men on charges which have been proved absurd, is intolerable, and Britain will feci justified in pics'.n,;. tor a commutation of the sentences, >.? net for tin; complet *. mractioii of the whole of the charges.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18925, 20 April 1933, Page 6
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