RUSSIA: Thank God!

That Communist Dictator Stalin means to continue the Moscow trials & executions, which have been going on since 1928, was suggested last week by the closing summary of Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky. "Let your sentence, Comrade Judges, resound as a bell calling for new victories!" he cried. "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains!

"We cannot leave such people alive. . . . They can do such things in America— where Al Capone remains alive—but not here. . . . Thank God, Russia is not America!"

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