DEATH OF TROTSKY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 227, 23 August 1940, Page 7

DEATH OF TROTSKY.

MEXICAN GESTURE. Received August 23, 8.5 a.m. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22. President Cardenas has ordered the funeral expenses of Leon Trotsky to be paid by the Mexican Government. The police held a girl Sylvia Ageloff, xx’hose sister Ruth originally introduced the assailant to Trotsky. Trotsky’s death occurred at 7.25 p.m. Mexican time. His wife, txvo personal bodygxiards and hospital attendants xvere at the bedside. A second brain operation xx-as performed ' before his death.

A Moscow message says that the report of Trotsky’s death was not published in the Press,,which makes only a small inside page announcement ot tbe attack, saying “an assassination was attempted by one of our followers.” CONSTANTLY .ON MOVE. Trotsky carried his revolutionary doctrines into many countries and was unabashed by frequent exile and deportation. At the beginning of tbe last war he was in Berlin,_ but the radical teachings of his writings there were too much for the Berlin Government, wffiich had no taste for Socialist programmes except in foreign parts. He was compelled xo go to Switzerland, but there, too, he found the atmosphere chilly. After a time he went to Paris, and edited a newspaper there, but the French Government refused to allow his doctrines to be spread after Russian troops arrived in France, and he moved on to Spain. Trotsky was shanghaied to Cuba from Spain, and in 1917 he returned to Russia from America. Following his banishment in 1929 by the Soviet authorities he settled on the island or Pinkipo (Turkey). He attempted to obtain permission to enter Spam when the revolution took place there, but without success. Fire destroyed his large library and he had to collect a new one. In 1932 he visited Franco and Denmark, and in 1933 went to Italy. In 1936 he made his home in Norway. He was accused of joining with Zinoviev and Kamenev in a plot to murder Stalin, but repudiated the allegation. Then last year lie was given asylum in France, but his retreat at Barbizon, hidden behind barbed ware, was discovered and he fled from the country fearing an attempt on his life. He then asked for domicile in Ireland, was refused it, and attempted to gain permission to enter Britain, also without success. Spam also closed its doors to him and eventually he found refuge in Mexico City, where he remained till his death.