Evening star., 1937-01-30

sources predicted, the Kremlin would
find 1t expedient to accept Radeks
word he had broken completely with
Trotzky and take him back again into
the fold.
His caustic, trenchant pen has been
sorely missed from the Russian press
during the six months Of his imprison-
ment awaiting trial.
1t was known also, Joseph Stain Is
loath to see Radek die. despite his ad-
mitted treachery. because they long
have been close friends.
Stain, general secretary Of the
Communist party, was said recently to
have disclosed he received a 36-page
letter from Radek just one day before
the writer confessed-Radek profess
ing his unqualified allegiance to the
Stalinist regime.
The theory spread that Gregory
Sokolnikoff, former Soviet Ambassador
to Great Britain, was given his life in
exchange for his full confession. which
was understood to have come before
the others and to have helped the
prosecution clear up many points In
the conspiracy.
The whisker-fringed editor strobe
of to prison between two guards with
his icy indifference unshattered.
Other defendants wept openly as
the three judges Of the military COL
legium Of the supreme court returned
their verdict after eight hours de-
liberation.
Radek, M. s. Stroiloff and Gregory
Sokolnikoff, once Soviet Ambassador
to Great Britain. went to jail for II
years, and v. v. Arnold, who had
said he was once an American citizen
and veteran Of two enlistments in the
United States Army, was imprisoned
for eight years.
Prosecutor Asks Death.
Prosecutor Audrey Vishinsky, who
had pieced together the intrigue to re-
store capitalism to Communist Rus
sia, had demanded Radek's death
holding the publicist most responsible
for the plot, involving Japan and Ger
many, because of his confessed con-
tact with exiled Leon Trotzky through
letters.
The judges said the four who es.
capped death were equally as guilty Of
treason as the others. but had not
actually engineered the terroristie
plots to which the others confessed.
Gregory Piatikoff, former assistant
commissar for heavy industry: j. A
Livschitz, former vice commssar Of
railroads, and I. A. Kniazeff, former
chief Of the southern railways, were
among the most conspicuous defend
ants sentenced to death.
They had admitted completely In
successful plots to wreck railroads and
paralyze mines.
Nikolai Bukharin, former newspaper
editor; Alexis Rykoff, former commis-
sar Of communications. and others
were expected to face the court In new
trials as did the II conspirators today
and the l6 defendants executed after
the famous Kameneff-Zinovie trial
last August.
Many other suspects, linked to the
Trotzkyist faction by testimony, have
been arrested. How many Is not
known, but it is virtually certain the
number Is In the Notwithstanding
Trotzky's son, Sergei. and Alexander
Georgivitch Belaborodon, reputed
slayer Of the Gear.
Thousands of Muscovites gave up
their free day to march through Red
Square in bitter weather to demon
strate their asserted solidarity with
the courts verdict in the trial Of II
conspirators.
With the mercury at Is below
heavy-overcoated infantrymen and
cavalry troops and workers gathered
at dusk In all streets emptying into
the famed square and streamed past
the Lenin Tribune in q procession
much like revolution anniversary
parades Of November Z.
Secretary General Of Trades Unions
Schwernick, in a spirited address from
the Tribune, called on the workers
for new evidence Of their solidarity
with the Soviet government in the
face Of revelations Of the Radek trial.
He particularly stressed that the Soviet
Union is strong in defense despite al
legged traitorous actions Of the trial
defendants.
Hastily painted banners, protesting
the peoples gratitude that 13 more
men are to be shot, were carried along
with old banners salvaged from pre-
vious parades.