Citizenship in Russia The Morning Post discovered before anybody else
that certain ex-employees of Amos, who have refused to obey the order of the Soviet Consul-General to return from England to Russia, are to lose their citizenship and to become liable to execution within twenty-four hours of their landing—if they do—in Russia. This is the Soviet Law of Citizenship. Thus England again becomes the asylum of the outlaws of a foreign State, and has the opportunity to show that she has not forgotten her traditions. This disclosure comes almost simultaneously with the announcement that, in order to maintain the exports of timber scheduled under the Five-Year Plan, citizens of the northern Provinces Of Russia, including most of what was Vologda and Archangel, are to be subjected to forced labour. Such labour has previously been applied only to convicts, * * * * -
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