Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned from the official Soviet newspaper Pravda ("Truth") that Death was going to be meted out to all 21 prisoners (TIME, March 7), no matter what happened in the courtroom. Pravda is seldom wrong in such a case. Thus the U. S. Ambassador could look across at the witness box to the right of the judges' table and figure that certain death hung over the distinguished Russian diplomat who welcomed him on his arrival (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937), and presented him to Soviet President Mihail Kalinin in the Kremlin, Nikolai Krestinsky, who in Washington terms would be the right...
...bench last week wearing for the first time the Order of Lenin, "Highest Soviet Decoration," which he received after the last trial. With a bored air he superintended the routine by which prisoner after prisoner, as his name is called, pops up from the prisoner's box, pleads guilty to his section of the indictment (which he has already signed before entering the courtroom), pops down...
After ten of the 21 had thus popped on schedule, Prisoner Krestinsky created last week's first big sensation by making a play, not to the gallery,* but to "The Box...
...Box is located above and behind the judges' bench at Moscow trials in semidarkness. Now & then last week a cigaret could be seen glowing in The Box. It is believed to be at the disposal of the Dictator, but if he comes to watch proceedings darkness hides...
When, after this, the Dictator did not come forward and intervene from The Box, none doubted that overnight the Secret Political Police would get Krestinsky in a frame of mind to confess to everything on the morrow and he did, visibly a broken man. Meanwhile, all the rest of the prisoners popped up & down with their confessions...