“Freda Utley returned to England in 1937 to enlist George Bernard Shaw’s aid in gaining her husband’s release from a Soviet prison. Shaw wrote to her on July 8, 1937 that the…
‘….five years will not last forever, that imprisonment under theSoviet Union is not as bad as it is here in the West; and that when I was in Russia and inquired about certain engineers who had been sentenced to ten years for sobotage, i learnt that they were at large and in high favor after servign two years of their sentences.'” Courtesy of Allan Brownfeld, The St Croiz Review, 2/2000.