TROTSKY IN NORWAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22140, 20 June 1935, Page 11

TROTSKY IN NORWAY

PERMISSION TO REMAIN RUSSIAN BCILE ILL OSLO. June 18 Disguised by the shaving off of his beard and the bleaching of his moustache, Leon Trotsky, accompanied by his wife, arrived at Oslo to-day. The police immediately recognised him. The Government has granted him permission to remain si:s: months provided he does not engage in political propaganda. The Minister of Justice, M. Arne Sunde, states that Trotsky will probably go to a sanatorium. It was a matter of life and death that he should leave France. Newspapers express the opinion that the Russian exile is suffering from advanced tuberculosis. In October, 1927, Leo Trotsky was expelled from the executive "of the Third (Communist) International after a violent attack on the Soviet dictator, Stalin. In January, 1928, Stalin and his followers decreed the banishment of Trotsky and more than 30 members of the Opposition on the ground that they had developed anti-Soviet activities by attempting to create a secret organisation to work against the dictatorship with the aid of foreign diplomats in Moscow. On January 16 Trotsky left for his place of exile, Vierny, on the borders of Turkestan and China. With his wife, son and daughters Trotsky arrived at Constantinople in February. 1929, under the pseudonym of Seibroff. He was taken under the supervision of the Soviet Consulate and treated practically as a prisoner, being unable to communicate with anyone but the Russian officials. Eventually he went to live on the island of Prinkipo, in the Sea of Marmora. In March, 1931, his wooden villa was destroyed by a fire. All the furniture and a great part of his library and papers perished, but he mabaged to save some correspondence between himself and Lenin, the manuscript of his history of the Russian revolution, and material for other works. His memoir* had appeared in 1930 and had been translated into English. He lived for some time in Corsica after that, and he tried to induce certain European countries to admit him as a resident, but without success. Finally, however, in May, 1934, France permitted him to reside there on condition that he did not engage in propaganda.