THE TROTSKY MANIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 4

THE TROTSKY MANIA

SAVES A PRINCE'S SON

The present Russian tendency to, *ci, "Trotskyism" in everything has s*V«i the life of a descendant of one of th« noblest families under' the Tsariit fe« gime, says the Moscow correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian." Boris Grigorievich Golitsyn, son c* Prince Golitsyn. has been charged with, using his position as manager of a municipal garage to appropriate motor "spares" for the repair of cart bought and sold speculatively. This was a serious offence, tor th« stern law of 1932 held that Socialist property was sacred, end convictions under this law have usually carried the death penalty. But a new interpretation has recently been put on this taw by the State Prosecutor, Vyshinsky, and as a result Golitsyn escaped with a sentence of five years' imprisonment. Vyshinsky recently denounced an. application of the law that.brought the death sentence on a mother for iba theft of a 'few pounds of bread or on a peasant for picking up ears of grain from harvested fields as a distortion devised by "Trotski'iete" as a form oS wrecking. The Golitsyn family, which bjr.tftn time of the Revolution had many branches, was foremost among the Russian nobility. The head of the house had the heredittary right to stajid covered in the presence of the Tsar in recognition of the fact .that th«'G<x litsylis were an older family,than t|B«j Bomanoffs. ' —■ y \ %