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Four months ago (TIME, June 20) Soviet Minister Peter Lazarevitch Vojkov was felled in a Warsaw railway station by the foul hand of a boy assassin. Due note of that fact was emphasized by the arrival of M. Bogomolov, who symbolizes a return of normal Russo-Polish relations, after a period of horror struck deep in Russia by political and revengeful executions, and in Poland by a period of intense excitement uncalmed by the sentence of the aforesaid boy assassin to life imprisonment with a recommendation by the Court that this be commuted to 15 years...
Russo-Polish feeling has been running high since Soviet Envoy Vojkov was murdered in Warsaw (TiME, June 27), despite the fact that the incident was, officially, amicably settled between the two countries. It is suggested that the killing of the Pole Traikowicz, was to some extent due to the bad feeling over the murder of Envoy Vojkov...
Meanwhile, in Warsaw, Assassin Boris Kovenko declared to the Special Tribunal which sat upon his case: "I killed M. Vojkov, but I did not kill him as a person. I killed him because of what the Bolshevists have done in Russia...
Editorially the Gazette said: "Behind this base action is hidden a hand which wanted Vojkov's blood to provoke a war and the sentence is a concession to the die-hard lunatics. Let the Poles remember it is dangerous to play with fire...
Makar, declared: "It is significant that the murder of Minister Vojkov occurred just after the rupture between England and Russia. There has not been one murder of a Soviet leader in which England has not played a dominating role...