KEEP OUT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 641, 20 September 1933, Page 6

KEEP OUT

SOVIET DEFIANCE AT THE MOSCOW TRIAL. "INSOLENT DEMANDS." A verbatim account of the Moscow trial, under the title of Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union, which runs into very nearly 800 pages, is published . by Messrs. Allen and Unwin; at 10s 6d. The story of the trial makes very interesting reading, and whatever one may think of Russian justice, the book is a document of international importance. The speeches and examination of Vyshinsky are startling in their bitterness. The evidence gained in secret, curiously enough, is that which receives his most severe castigation. In one speech he says: — "The insolent, arrogant demands of certain foreign circles, as I have said, received a deserved rebuff. And they will receive this rebuff in the future if they for a moment forget that they are dealing with the U.S.S.R., the land of great socialist construction. "We have never permitted, we do not permit, and shall not permit, anyone to interfere in internal affairs, no matter what manocuvres, noise and clamour they may raise." The trial is foreign to all British ideas of justice, and one has the feeling that reading the amazing evidence that it is probably the last of its kind.