WORLD REVOLUTION.
TROTSKY'S IMPRESSIONS. PROGRESSING TOWARD GOAL. (Per Press Association — Copyright.) (Received This Day, 8.25 a.m.) BERLIN, January 18. > Trotsky has gone to Vjerny. The “Berliner Tageblatt’s” Moscow correspondent interviewed Trotsky, wno was indifferent to his personal fate and would not discuss it. . . The correspondent remarked: Loyd George once prophesied that you would have a Napoleonic career.” Trotsky replied: “It is a curious idea. I favour ending the revolution. It is not the first time Lloyd George has 6rrGu Trotsky emphasised that the world often wrongly interpreted or misinterpreted ideas. . . “The world revolution is now pro-1 gressing for the first time since it started on its downward path in 1923. The improvement in the* European economic situation is approaching stagnation and presents obstacles everywhere and lack of elbow room, by which the lower classes are especially hit. Trotsky expects the impending European elections to result in a geneial movement toward social democracy, from which Communism will be the* final gainer.” . , ~ , “A Labour victory in England, he said “would not necessarily mean improved Anglo-Soviet relations because the Labourites have Liberal tendencies.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 84, 19 January 1928, Page 5
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