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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...
Comrades Rosenholz and Vojkov, thus interrupted, resumed their walk without replying to Boris Kovenko. He, snubbed, drew a revolver and fired at M. Vojkov. The Soviet Minister whipped out his own revolver, but sagged to the ground before he could wound Boris Kovenko, who continued methodically to empty all six chambers of his revolver into the crumpled body of M. Vojkov. When two policemen sprinted up, the assassin carelessly surrendered his revolver, saying only: "I killed Vojkov. ... I acted from idealistic motives...
...city of Murderer Kovenko, the White Russian newspaper Novaia Rossia appealed for contributions wherewith to retain able defense attorneys in his behalf. Immediately the Polish Government suppressed Novaia Rossia, placed the editor in jail. In London Lord Rothermere's violently anti-red Evening News declared: "The slain man (Vojkov) signed the death warrants of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family. By Vojkov's assassination at the hand of a royalist, retribution has come to one of the chief perpetrators of one of the foulest murders in history...
...Very deeply shocked and indignant over the outrageous murder of M. Vojkov. I beg you to be good enough to accept this expression of my most sincere condolences...