SOVIET MINISTER DISMISSED
■ ♦ REPLACED BY FORMER TROTSKYIST PARADOXICAL POSITION OF NEW APPOINTEE (Received September 17, 11 p.m.) LENINGRAD, September 16. The Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union has dismissed the Minister for Justice (M. N. V. Krilenko) and substituted as People’s Commissar, M. Antonov Ovseyenko. M. Ovseyenko’s position is paradoxical because he must bring Trotskyists to justice, notwithstanding that his entire career was based on his being Trotsky’s chief-of-staff in the Petrograd revolution in 1917. His recent activities at Barcelona in counteracting Trotskyism secure his present post.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 18 September 1937, Page 15
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