Trotsky Attacks Stalin

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 5

Trotsky Attacks Stalin

Moscow Trials Purely Theatrical DICTATOR’S FATAL ERROR. United Pres# Association—By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. Received Tuesday, 9.50 p.m. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1. TroWky, in a copyright article for the United Press, says: “The Moscow trials occurred not because the Ogpu discovered traces of a plot and located the criminals and not because the criminals, shaken by the pangs of conscience have voluntarily accused themselves of committing crimes. No! “The trials were staged becauso the Ogpu has at its disposal an unlimited number of men whom it can mould as it wishes according to political necessity—men who have been educated in a system of false confessions and who are forced to take upon themselves all sorts of duplicity in order to demonstrate their sincerity and attempt to save their lives.

“The trials are purely theatrical productions with the roles written out in advance with an absolute fuhrer as stage manager. Their political aim is to kill the opposition, remove everyone who speaks lor it and poison every source once for all of every vestige of critical thought. “Has bureaucracy attained its pun pose! No. Btaiin is greatly mistakeu as to the consequences. His error will be fatal to his dictatorship. We shall see that in the near future. ” NEW PURGES IN RUSSIA. TNCERTAIN FATE OF THOSE IMPLICATED. Received Tuesday, 7.15 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 1. The Daily Telegraph’s Moscow corrcapondeut says about a hundred persons, old and young Bolsheviks, engineers and others, were implicated by the confessions of the accused in last week's trial. It may be assumed that all are already imprisoned but whether they will ever be publicly tried is another matter. Meanwhile news is reaching Moscow of new purges in th* great chemical and munition plants in the provinces. An official communique issued at Leningrad refers to the expulsion from the party of Kudriavzev, chief of the Political Department of the LeningradWarsaw railway for relations with the Trotsky plotters. It does not mention his fate. LAST ACT IN DRAMA CONDEMNED MEN SHOT. LONON, Feb. 1. Discounting earlier reports published ia a scctiou of the Press purporting to describe the last scenes of the execution of the thirteen Moscow prisoners, the latest messages from Moscow contain the laconic semi-official announcement that the executions by shooting wero carried out this afternoon. The bodies are believed to have been immediately cremated. Strict secrecy is maintained as to the exact manner of execution, whether by a firing squad or i by the earlier Ogpu method of a revolver shot in the back of the head when the victim was not expecting it.