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...Stalin fortnight ago got after the long-time chief of his Secret Police, dread Genrikh Yagoda (TIME, April 12). Whether or not Yagoda was squealing confessions under pressure of Ogpu third degree last week, the State in its newsorgans suddenly foamed with rage about Yagoda, using "Russian words rarely encountered outside the Government decrees of the time of Peter the Great, causing general wonderment as to the nature of the crime," according to able Herald Tribune Moscow Correspondent Joseph Barnes...
...Soviet industrial managers by the newly appointed Commissar of Heavy Industry Valery I. Mezhlauk (TIME, March 8). Since 700 people are too many to keep Quiet, it was soon learned that Comrade Mezhlauk had dropped some strong hints as to the next Moscow Old Bolshevik trial, intimating that the Ogpu's efforts to wring confessions are being "strenuously resisted" by the two star prisoners, onetime Soviet Premier Alexei Rykov and onetime Soviet No. 1 Editor Nikolai Bukharin, both finely bearded Old Bolsheviks. Smooth-shaven New Bolshevik Mezhlauk smoothly voiced indignation, but not at third-degree methods. "It is hard...
Industrial Ambassador. Nine agents of the Ogpu, or NKVD as J. Stalin now prefers to call Soviet secret police, went last week with Ambassador Davies in the special train put at his disposal to tour Soviet industrial centres in the primarily agricultural Ukraine. His private car, furnished free by the Government, was what Russians now know as a "Commissar's Saloon Car," for really big Reds today have a private car thrown in with their State jobs. There was an ordinary sleeping car for the NKVD and correspondents, another for the Davies party to use at night...
...weeks I tortured my investigators by refusing to confess!" sneered the Monkey, thus openly hinting third-degree methods by the Ogpu - and yet Karl Ra dek got away with all his impudence while 13 others got Death...
Obviously the Second Old Bolshevik Trial was either above or below board and Great Exile Leon Trotsky either merits execution in Ogpu cellars or does...