Russia: Persecution of religion, individual rights, and
other freedoms continues. The Moscow
Soviet announces that 73 churches have been closed in that city alone over the
past year. It is common for the bells of
these churches to be removed and melted down for industrial use, and the
buildings converted to civic halls. In
Minsk, Belorus (Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic), three Jewish rabbis are
arrested for “conspiring” against the Soviet government. All of this, soviet authorities say, is at
the request of the working class. Meanwhile,
the government of the Soviet Union reports it has seized $50 million worth of
property from private traders and others for payment of taxes owed.
Madrid: King Alfonso
dissolves that National Assembly, which was formed by ex-dictator Miguel Primo
de Rivera, a move viewed by many as a possible precursor to the restoration of
some form of constitutional government.
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