Word: jakovlevich
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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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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