The grim axiom of Soviet trials is "They Always Confess." Last week that axiom again proved sound in Leningrad where Joseph Stalin was having privately polished off a group of redoubtable Old Bolsheviks—some older than Stalin in the Communist aristocracy founded by Nikolai Lenin.
The accused were too eminent to be tried in Moscow, although in Moscow drastic Judge Vassily Ulrich recently ordered 36 of the 117 executions decreed to avenge Dictator Stalin's assassinated "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week Judge Ulrich arrived in Leningrad in the midst of...
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