RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 4

RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA

EFFORTS in BRITAIN. [BY CABLE —PBESB ASBN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON, February 15. Lord Cranborne (Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs) questioned bl Conservatives in the House of Commons, said that the Third International, through British communists, in as distributing propaganda in Britain, for which the Soviet had on several occasions disclaimed responsibility. Britain did not accept the explanation, and would continue to make strong representations to the Soviet on the appropriate cases. TROTSKY CLAIMS ALIBI. NEW YORK, February 16. The “New York Times” publishes a long front page article by M. Leon Trotsky, offering proof that he was far from Paris in July, 1933, where he was stated to be when Vladimir Romm, former Washington correspondent of the Moscow newspaper “Izvestia” testified that he met M. Trotsky in a park and delivered five letters from Karl Radek, the Soviet journalist. “French police records show that numerous prominent persons visited me, and testify that I was ill in bed at Royan, on the Atlantic coast, at that time,” writes M. Trotsky. “The same obvious impossibilities mark all the attempts of the Ogpu to connect me with any of its victims’ so-called confessions.”