The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-17

Purge" by Isaac DON Levine, famous student OF Kus"
sian Gff0irs.) sae
THE eight Red Army generals who executed in Mos
COW after secret trial" all Communists of the pre-
Stain school There enough independence left IN them
to express in their intimate circle an occasional criticism OF
Stains policies That is capital crime in Russia today
Stain demands utter subservience and doatry from all
the members of his government He is morbdy jealous OF
any person group gaining prestige IN the country Like
all farrdden despots history he is haunted py every
possible or reputed heir to his power
The last Car of Russia Nicholas H. removed Grand Duke
Nicholas Nikoaievtch from the command OF the
army the World War for the reason that Stain be-
the entire general staff of the Red Army The Gar
upon the advice Of the unbalanced Czrna who feared
that the Grand Duke would seize the throne.
Stains bloody prompted by the recognition that
the Red Army the only nteraed force in Russia to take
over the rens upon his passing from the
doomed Communist generals had discussed such
an eventuatv to avoid an chaos hardly
be doubted That Stain got wind of such talk through the
apervang espionage system is evidenced by Radek state
ents at the last tria" involving Marshal Tukhachevsky
It was but step the deeply suspicious Stain to take
such conversations as reported by G. u underlngs seek
ing to make careers plots against his rule Ivan the
Terrible other Aatc and Western autocras have
murdered their closest counseors out of similar
tensions.
Every one of the eight had easy Stain
himself If but one of them had been real traitor and
otter against Stain he would have had difficulty in
asassinang the dictator As high officers they all carried
arms.
Every one of the eight generals knew enough of the secret
plans Of the Red Army to fortune by himself
spv without Joining a ring which would be of
country, let alone SoVeC Russia
been real spies at least of them after the warning of the
previous purge would managed to the ragnet
The eight generals were victims of the same frame,qp
method which sent Kamenev Znoviev Piatakov and the
other original makers the Soviet Revolution to their deaths
as spies Of Germany and Japan This frameup formula is
did "a the Red Terror has always been used by the
Kremlin to get rid Of its real imagined opponents
Stain fastened the label of spies the heads of the Red
ARMY to Justify himself before the Russian people He had
them executed because he led to believe that they
0arded themselves as successors to his scepter.
Look at the of the Stain regime and decide for
yourself if there is anything surprising about the latest
frame-up. 49,.
The Soviet Government has political prisoners than
all the other nations Of the world combined.
It has nearly million men and women in penal labor
camps more than is to be found in all other countries OF
the globe put together
It built the largest army earth long before the rise OF
Hitler regime and of the Japanese threat in the Far East
Stain had at his command in 1928 engine of terror
sufficient to starve death five million peasants who
posed collectivzation. $3.50 ,
Abvsma fear colossal terror Unsuitable espionage the
of the Stain system Whether the end of this system
| is in sight will be discussed in another article.