Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-09

at will. to interrupt witnes :es n
to make long political addresses from
the benches where they sat, day by
day. guarded by khaki clad soldiers
with bayoneted rifles. At one time
some OF the prisoners arose and
threateped to withdraw from the
trial. Again they argued with the
presiding judge that the hours of Sit
ting were too long.
They feel that they are doomed;
for several years they have been i'm
p%risoned and now. while they have
the chance. they are going to talk
politics." one of the counsel for the
defen e said in explaining the pris-
oners' attitude. From the very be-
ginning of the trial on June s the
principal defendants took the stand
that they were responsible, not to the
court. but to history andsto their~own
eonsciences, and ethereupon th@ be-
a to carry on an unEuly program
that might we'll have shocked an
American judge into having them put
back in their cells and ordering the
trial to go on without them. p
Court Against Defendants.
! Most of the courts rulings were
against the defendants. Because of
this Emil Vandervekde, Belgian, once
a minister of the Belgian cabinet, and
a representative at h trial of the
Second. or Am sterdam Internationale,
withdrew in disgust and. went back
home. He a been permitted to en-
ter Russia as counsel for the defense.
With him went Herr Liebknecht.
brother Of Carl Liebknecht. the mar
tyr Communist Of Germany; Herr
Resented and Herr Waters. the 9TH
er foreign counsel sent in by. the So
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political co-belicvers. 81 !.
Representatives OF. the Third or
Communist International, reached
and Vienna, or the, mjlder %Interna-
tionales prior to the trial by which
foreign counsel were to be admitted
into Russia, Inc the defendants guar
anteed against a death sentence. In
return the other Internationales prom
Used to call a congress for a united
front" of all the. 1nternationales
against capitalism. This conference,
the Communists contend, was to have
been conyoked during the Genoascon-
ference. This was not done. and the
Russian Representatives declared the
agreement a beer broken, placing
the responsibility on the other Inter
rationale. Therefore, the Russians
announced. they were lot bound to
refrain from sentencing me social rev.
olutionists to- death.
The open propaganda made against
the Socialist InternatiOnales in Mos
COW. and the repeated decisions OF
the court against the defense. aroused
their ire more than has any event OF
the last so years and lembittered the
feeling between the once united reds
and "pinks." Each side accused the
| nfh NJ IF hod "fnffh a. --nt" .s-l n
Demand Their Death.
An event unprecedented in the his
tory of court, the world over occurred
June 20, the anniversary. of the as.
sassination of'Commissar. Voladarsky
one Of the men whom the Social Rev
o~lutionfsts were accused of causing tc
be murdered. On that day in Moscow
thousands Of workmen were ordered
to parade the streets and demon.
strate, demanding the death Of the
defendants. Representatives Of the
demon strators. despite the objections
of the Russian lawyers who remain.
ed in court to defend the prisoners
were permitted to harrangue the
court, and the Judges themselve,
thanked the mass of workmen for the
inspiration they had given them.
The assistance given by the Socia
Il IL a rF6 lI6 llbI
and French troops at Archangel ant
in other expeditions: the plots agains,
the lives Of Lenine and Trotzky. and
other acts OF alleged high Treason
were detailed in court in 4buifding 'ur
the case. against the defendants. Mos
of the prisoners admitted they haS
worked against the Bolshevikis In tn,
civil war, and some defiantly said the,
would continue to do So. But except
ing a.few who turned informers. the,
all denied participation in assassina.
tons.
sisosr Question Brother.
One of the most dramatic inciden
in the long course, Of. thrills. was whe.
Gregory Rather, one OF the defend
ants, was on the stand. His sister
Eugene Rather. also aIprisoner ant
one of the principals among the &C
cused,, hysterically hurled interrhp