Word: schachkta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Propaganda trials in Russia correspond to U. S. Presidential statements, serve to emphasize the Administration's notions. Last big affair of this sort was the Schachkta Trial (TIME, July 2 & 16, 1928), broadcast by radio to prove that lazy, clumsy or willfully inefficient engineers or workmen could expect harsh treatment. Hero of these proceedings was Soviet Prosecutor Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. Last week in a 30-column statement which Moscow papers dutifully printed, Comrade Krylenko announced that he would put eight arrested persons on trial for conspiring with non-Bolshevik citizens to seize the State and to make...
Several of the accused, as in the Schachkta case, appeared to have confessed with extreme volubility, will rehearse these confessions at the trial with a view to incriminating as their foreign accomplices: i) Raymond Poincare, Wartime President of France; 2) Colonel Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence; 3) Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France; 4) Winston Churchill, former Chancellor of the British Exchequer; 5) Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Royal Dutch oilman...
| 1 |