PLOT AGAINST STALIN

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 August 1936, Page 5

PLOT AGAINST STALIN

TROTSKY’S PART TRIAL OF TERRORISTS. Press Association Electric Telecranh —Conyrigbr (Received Friday, 9.35 a.m.) MOSCOW, Thursday. Kamenev, recalled at the treason trial, declared that he was in full sympathy with Trotsky, and said he was impelled by personal hatred for Stalin and the lust for power. Kamenev added that the former London Ambasador, Sokolnikov 7 , thought t.hat the terrorist was deliberately excluded from the plot against Stalin, so that he could facilitate Trotsky’s return to power.

"Trotsky’s role in the terror plot was greater than mine, which was great enough," said Zinoviev. "The physical destruction of Stalin was Trotsky’s instruction to all agents. Admitting my guilt, I am determined to tell the truth. I ordered Bogden to kill Stalin. I went all the way through the counterrevolution to terrorism because Trotskyism plus terrorism is Fascism." "ACT OF REVENGE." M. TROTSKY’S STATEMENT. OSLO, Thursday. M. Trotsky lias issued a statement declaring that he will be able to prove to the ■ world that the ease is only an act' of revenge, which places the Dreyfus affair and the Reichstag fire trial in the shade. "Give me a brief respite, and the prosecutors themselves will be prosecuted," he says.

(Before grim-faced judges in the Supreme Court, presided over by M. V. V. Ulrich, President of the Council of Military Law, who tried the Metropoli-tan-Vickers ease in 1933, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Smirnov 7 , and Ilolamann stood trial. All pleaded guilty to the indictment, which stated that they inspired a German, Fritz David, in an attempt to shoot M. Stalin at the Union Congress of Soviets in July, 1935, but that the plot failed because David was unable to take aim. Similar plots are alleged against M. Voroshilov and other Communist leaders).