RUSSIAN PLOT
ORGANISED ATTEMPT TO KILL TROTSKY IN MEXICO ONLY SLIGHTLY HURT Thirty to 40 nv::n, armed with machinc-guns, attacked t!ic Russian politician. Trotsky, firing inlo his bedroom. Trotsky was slightly injured hy flying glass. Trotsky alleged that the attack was "organised by the 0.G.P.U., un ■rler Stalin's supervision." He said liow lie and his Avife, Natalie, escaped,, inspired by a sixth sens;-, rolling from the beds to the floor. It was discovered later that one of the bullets pierced the pillow where Trotsky's head had lain. The raiders, after binding five policcmcn stationed, in the grounds, machine. gunned the bedroom lor a quarter of an hour, n.nd also burled in thermos ho?ties full oi' a • incendiary liquid. start ir-g two JWs. -which Natalie extinguished Avith b'ankets.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 168, 3 June 1940, Page 6
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127RUSSIAN PLOT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 168, 3 June 1940, Page 6
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