Jubilant Negro dailies throughout the U. S. hailed last week the "race justice" of Soviet Russia's courts. In Moscow two white U. S. workmen, Lemuel ("Lem") Lewis of Detroit and William ("Bill") Brown of Toledo, had just been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for assaulting a Negro waiter in the mess hall of a Soviet factory—this crime being known to Red jurists as "racial Chauvinism."
Vainly the accused pleaded that they had committed only "simple assault and battery." The court held that their motive was "race hatred," that they would not have assaulted...
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