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Eight of Red Russia's top-rank fighting men stood on trial last week in a small, bare courtroom before an array of judges including Marshal Semion Mikhailovich Budenny and Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich, president of the Military Colegium of the Soviet Supreme Court. The eight...
...were green-cloth-covered. As usual, the apple-cheeked Red Army soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets mounting guard over the prisoners' box were changed every 30 minutes of the otherwise leisurely proceedings. There were the usual tall glasses of smoking hot tea without which ponderous Judge Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich and pouncing Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky could never have got through all the years in which they have gradually worked up from Communist obscurity to the reputation of having convicted and sentenced to Death more statesmen than any other team of justice in the world. There was even plenty...
Observer for President Roosevelt was Second Secretary Loy Henderson in charge of the U. S. Embassy in the absence of Ambassador William Bullitt. On a dais four judges in Soviet Army khaki took their places. President of the Court was thickset Judge Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich, famed ever since he presided at the Soviet trial of British Metropolitan-Vickers engineers (TIME, April 24, 1933). Somewhat less light of step and pantherlike than usual entered Chief Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky, longtime pouncer in broadcast Bolshevik trials. At the left of Judge Ulrich was the box of 16 prisoners around whom stood Red Army...
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