TROTSKY ON LEAVE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 7

TROTSKY ON LEAVE

SCANDINAVIAN TOUR

LECTURING ON RUSSIA

COPENHAGEN, 2Sth Nov.

3\L Leon Trotsky was permitted to; leave Czechoslovakia for the purpose* of lecturing in Scandinavia and deliver-! .ing a broadcast speech, to the United! States last evening, for which lie re-| coived' £300, plus £15,555 for a talkie! film. 1

His subject was "The Meaning of-j the Russian Bevolution.'? He claimed! that as a resnlt of .a decade oC Soviet! rule productivity had been increased 3 400 per cent., whereas it had decreased! elsewhere. '"'".' ■

The Danish wireless authorities re-' fused to broadcast the speech, bo hei had it telephoned to Rugby, and thence! sent by submarine telephone to ".New:1, York. .M. Trotsky's unfamiliarity with: English handicapped his effort/- '■■■■•• Every precaution ' was taken by the* Danish police to ensure his safety,, and there were no disturbances. He" will visit Sweden to lecture there. ' ' ■^According to a message from IJont don dated 17th November,, for the first' time in four years Leon Trotsky—on* time co-dictator of Russia with Lenin—" is leaving: the island .of Prinkipo,- iaj the Sea of Marmora, where he has beei living in exile. Ho" has obtained peri mission, says the Constantinople correspondent of "The Times," from the* Danish Government to lecture on thef Russian revolution to Socialist students sn> Copenhagen. Later he hopes to tour Norway and Sweden for a similar pur-i pose. Trotsky left on the . Italian; steamer Praga and will travel via Mar* Eeilles.