LEON TROTSKY.
DENIAL OF PLOTTING.
“GREATEST FAKE IN HISTORY” United Press Association--Copyright) LONDON, August 17. The Oslo correspondent of “The Times” says that Leon Trotsky has issued a statement. “The indictment against me is one of the greatest fakes in political history. I have had no connection with Russia since I arrived in Norway. I have not written to Russia or received a letter from there. lam unable to write to my son, who is working in Russia as a non-political scientist.” Trotsky left his island refuge in Christiansund for an unknown destination, owing to numerous visitors arriving in sailing boats, motor boats and denouncing him as a murderel'.
It was officially announced ,in Moscow last Friday that an anti-Govern-ment plot, allegedly directed by M. Trotsky, had been discovered,. The police had consequently ordered the trial of M. Zinoviev, M. Kamenev, M. Smirnov, and 13 others. Zinoviev and Kamenev were sentenced in January, 1935, to 10 years’ and five years’ imprisonment respectively for counterrevolutionary activity over the murder of M. Sergie Koriv, the Soviet leader in Leningrad. M. Trotsky was to be interviewed at Christiansund by Norwegian police officers.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 263, 19 August 1936, Page 5
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