14 APRIL 1923, Page 3

If it may be said without contempt of the Soviet

court there is little doubt what the' result of the trial Win be. The general horror in this country at the recent events. in Russia seems chiefly to have been provoked by the anti-Christian principles of the Soviet But in two thousand years Christianity has shown herself proof against persecution, and there is little ground for alarm an- that score. A more sinister' aspect of the situation is that the' former apostles of liberty should now' be taking part in this mediaeval persecution. The deter- mined-intolerance of all theorists fills one with despair.