REFUGE FOR TROTSKY
MEXICO TO GRANT RIGHT OF ASYLUM j (Received December 7, 9.35 p.m.) j * MEXICO CITY, December 7. j ( The Foreign Secretary (Senorj Hay) has announced that he will j grant M. Leon Trotsky the right of j asylum. Recently a pressing peti-, tion was made for authorisation for; him to come here. j [M. Trotsky left Russia for Norway some months ago, when he and his supporters were accused of complicity in the anti-Soviet plot, for which several Russians were sentenced to death His permit to remain in Norway will expire on December 18, and it was an- j nounced that it would not be renewed. According to a cable message on November 26. M. Trotsky sent urgent messages to friends abroad, asking them to do their utmost to obtain permission for him to go to another j European country.]
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21960, 8 December 1936, Page 9
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