Minor Impurities

Not unlike one or two holy wars before it, the Ukrainian crusade to keep Russian tanks from rolling into Westminster appears subject to a moral glitch here and there. A former deacon of the Orthodox Church in Odessa is accused of helping draft-dodgers escape the country by certifying them as missionaries to the infidel Euro-wogs, and of taking bribes for the favour. In addition, the head of the military medical commission and a couple of secretaries are being investigated for the dereliction of issuing certificates of unfitness for conscription at a slightly more substantial cost than the ex-deacon's alleged fees. Such antics will doubtless be deplored by all right-thinking persons, constituting as they do a malign and subversive caricature of the noble vocation of war profiteering.