TROTSKY IN EXILE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23061, 11 June 1938, Page 16

TROTSKY IN EXILE

ALLEGATION OF INTRIGUE AUSTRALIAN'S OPINIONS A suggestion that Stalin and Trotsky, two of tho best-known figures the Soviet has produced, are in close collaboration, and that Trotsky's exile is not a reality, was made by the Hon. W. Kelly, a former Australian Minister of Home Affairs, who passed through Auckland by the Mariposa yesterday, after visyting England. "Stalin shoots his opponents," Mr. Kelly said. "He exiled Trotsky to Constantinople, a focal point for Oriental intrigue. Trotsky applied for permission to enter England to see doctors, saying he was a dying man. He was refused, and went to France, and in» stead of dying he was such a nuisance that he had to leave. "Trotsky then went to Spain, where 'forays a la Trotsky' promoted the civil war," Mr. Kelly continued, "He left a trail of sit-down strikes in France and Belgium and went to Norway. This was no place for an intriguer, and so he went to Mexico, another focal point for intrigue among the South American republics supporting Franco. "Every time Stalin has good tise to make of Trotsky he is denounced as public enemy No. 1. People who do not like Stalin try to get in touch with Trotsky, are found out and shot. "The Trotsky finger may be seen in the very violent agitation over the wireless against England in America, by voioes distinctly foreign," Mr. Kelly concluded.