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...Poland. The Government of Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski flatly refused last week, a demand by the Soviet Government that one of its agents be allowed to participate at the trial in Warsaw of Boris Kovenko, the confessed assassin of M. Vojkov. How dared small Poland thus flout great Russia...
...revolver and fired at M. Vojkov. The Soviet Minister whipped out his own revolver, but sagged to the ground before he could wound Boris Kovenko, who continued methodically to empty all six chambers of his revolver into the crumpled body of M. Vojkov. When two policemen sprinted up, the assassin carelessly surrendered his revolver, saying only: "I killed Vojkov. ... I acted from idealistic motives...
Death, however, did not come to him, last week. Lucky, he received only flesh wounds. As everyone knows, he was equally lucky, some months ago, when another would-be assassin put bullets through his flesh near his home at Cajeme, Sonora...
Powder burns stung Il Duce's lips and cheek, the pistol had been fired so close. Yet he interposed to prevent a mob from lynching his would-be assassin, the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Dictator Mussolini, just, secured for Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard...
...special military tribunal sat upon the case last week in the grim Roman Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death penalty for attempts on the Premier's life is not retroactive (TIME, Nov. 15, 22), and would-be-assassin Tito Zaniboni faced, last week, a maximum penalty of 27 years in jail. His bravado was prodigious...