Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1948, Tokyo, T�ky� 4p Muf pm a the Price exacted manacle mute evil life of crime evidence s heels seals Mav recover Foo this ordeal in the papier mache bottle but he will never be free again Dick track. Informs acres o Riley. Ii to i i have parted 03mranv with heels Beals forever or. Track and my Job theater. " m t from 7 quiet wino Nemous phone now on quiet of Call reports ah1m just if shooting now a woman rs3b in Progress at Avenue jew i Fang shooting ? Erie and Thea venue Wmk that s where a new building is being erected. The materials hoist the same height As Penthouse on the building across the Street j " machine guns spit a Volley there now let the coppers try to work their ballistics magic he car descends Good now give me those rods begot run Over them after Stalin \ this correspondent first met Vish Insky when he acted As prosecutor in the famous Bukharin treason trial in Moscow in 1938. The memory of that brutal Force still lingers and it was never possible for the writer to become accustomed to seeing Vish Insky in the role of a Diplomat at United nations sessions. It was a Shock for foreign newspapermen covering the treason trial a Rhea or ecu Tor vis Wrisky angrily shout at the mild mannered Bukharin. You son of a Bull and a Bukh Jojn wag nth eced to Beatty stat & stripes and today he is generally forgotten but it is Worth recalling that Lenin once referred to him As the Best loved brother of the the life Story of Andrei Vishinsky is that of a ruthless and Brilliant opportunist a Man whose thin lip Ped cruelty arid lightning take brain enabled him to Rise to the top. Like Stalin Andrei Vishinsky be Gan his Rise to Power in the caucasus where he joined the social demo. Cratic revolutionary movement in 1902. He was elected Secretary of the Baku soviet in 1905, and his offi i Al wog Jasphy a Tater the feb Wab arrested and imprisoned several times in 1907," it should be noted How Ever that a a a revolution Ary arresis4� today almost Indi spen Sevit leaders. ,0 the Only Skeleton in Vishinsky s biographical closet was the fact that he had once been a me Shevik and that he did not join the communist party until 1920when their Victory had already been assured. Against this damaging evidence was the mitigating circumstance that the party genuinely needed him when he did join. Vishinsky has been a lecturer in criminal Law at Moscow University before the re Volution and he was one of the few professors Whf to went Over to the bolsheviks. The communists were carrying out a bloody purge of so called opposes Tion elements in All the soviet republics but the biggest liquidation i carried. Of in White was appointed attorney general this Republic. This waa his first assignment itt giving a tinge of legality to mass Art rests and executions and he a conf polished the task so efficiently that h4 was inevitably marked by the Krem Lin for other major work. His next big Chance came in 1934 when Sergei kirov the commissar of the Lenin Grad Region was assassinated. " Vishinsky personally conducted the investigation of the murder and late signed the indictments against Thos arrested in the Case. He was appointed state prosecutor of the . In March j935, and he direct the purge trials which lasted fro o 1938
