ARREST OF A FORMER SOVIET ENVOY
Trotsky Wrecking Charge
London, April 1.
The Riga correspondent of “The Tinies” telegraphs that unofficial reports from Moscow state that M. C'hris-
tian Rakovsky, former Ambassador to London, has been arrested as a Trotskyite wrecker.
M. Rakovsky became chairman of the Special Committee for tlie Struggle Against the Counter-Revolution in the Ukraine in 1918 and of the Council of People’s Commissars from 1919 till 1923. From 1923 till 1925 .lie was Ambassador to Britain. Then he went, to France for two years and afterward was expelled from the Communist Party as a member of the Trotsky opposition, but was reinstated in 1934 and became chief of the Department of Scientific Research in tlie Department of Health.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 160, 3 April 1937, Page 9
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