RUSSIA: In Case of Spies

If all spies in Russia employed by foreign governments would please come forward and confess, it would help things enormously. This simple suggestion was earnestly put forth last week by Pravda ("Truth"), official newspaper of Dictator Joseph Stalin.

Pravda explained: "It is only necessary to understand that any commission of error or act, even a heavy crime, if admitted and not hidden, if brought to the knowledge of organs of Soviet power, constitutes much smaller guilt than a secret agreement with the enemy for fulfillment of espionage commissions."

To loyal Soviet...

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