MERELY A DIVERSION
PREPARING FOR WAR,
LONDON, 7th December. "The Times," in a leading article commenting on the Moscow trial, says it has been clear from the beginning that the trial was intended to be nofc a judicial inquiry, but, a great political demonstration in order to divert to foreign Governments the blame for the privations suffered by the Russian people. The whole proceedings have been elaborately stage-managed with a view to • producing the greatest effect in Bussia and abroad. The chief effect upon foreign opinion has been to strengthen the conviction that the oligarchy which employs such methods to maintain itself must be desperately afraid of its power slipping from its grasp. It may well be that those who arranged the trial wanted to prepare public opinion for foreign war as a possible issue out of its difficulties. The Soviet Press has been busier than usual for months past, inciting its readers against foreign Governments, and predicting their collapse.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 9
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160MERELY A DIVERSION Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 9
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