Word: soviets
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Citizens of almost every European state experienced last week distinct repercussions from the murder of Soviet Minister to Poland Peter Lazarevitch Vojkov at Warsaw (TIME, June...
...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...
...Court then heard evidence tending to prove: 1) that although 19-year-old Assassin Kovenko is now an anti-Communist he once served in the Soviet Army; 2) that his character is "highly excitable" but "entirely honorable...
...hearing proceeded from 10 a.m. until midnight, almost without a break. Then Assassin Kovenko was sentenced to life imprisonment, the Court, however, recommending that this be commuted to 15 years. In Moscow. Promptly, the Soviet Workers' Gazette, Moscow, headlined: "Unheard-of mild sentence, which Kovenko hears with beaming face. Murder for which the Polish Government is responsible covered by Polish court...
This was, of course, an allusion to the formal charges of the Soviet Government last fortnight that Britain means to launch war upon the Soviets and maintains "spies and assassins" throughout Soviet territory. Against this so-called "British terror" the Soviet continued its adroitly named "counter terror." A score of alleged "British spies" were reported sentenced to death in Russia last week, notably one "Commander Klepikov of a ship in the Baltic fleet, who sold information to the British...