TROTSKY TALKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 256, 19 January 1928, Page 1

TROTSKY TALKS

WORLD REVOLUTION IDEA “LG.’S” ERRING PROPHESY “A NAPOLEONIC CAREER” By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. Reed 5.5 a.m. BERLIN, Wed. (ieneral Trotsky, who has been banished by his Soviet enemies, has gone t 0 Vjerny.

The Moscow correspondent of the “Berliner Tageblatt” interviewed him. Trotsky was indifferent as to his personal fate, and would not discuss it. Thp correspondent remarked, "Lloyd George once prophesied that you would have a Napoleonic career.

Trotsky replied, “There wa3 a curious idea that I was in favour of ending the revolution. It is not the first time that Lloyd George has erred.” He emphasised that the world often wrongly interpreted or misinterpreted the ideas of the

Mr. Lloyd George Trotsky world revolution, now for the first time progressing since it started on the downward path in 1923.

An improvement in the European economic situation was approaching; but there was stagnation everywhere, w'ith obstacles and lack of elbowroom, by which the lower classes were especially bit.

Trotsky expects that the impending European elections will result in a general movement toward social democracy, from which Communism T UI be the Anal gainer. A Labour victory in England would »ot necessarily mean improved Angloioviet relations, because tho Labourres had Liberal tendencies.—A. and • A-Son. SPREAD OF COMMUNISM CONSTANTINOPLE, Tues. Four ringleaders of ihe Communes, who were arrested in November, “are admitted that they attempted, ■a conjunction with Moscow, to foser Communism in Turkey. They “fayed in Vienna, en route Irom Rus- *» Turkey. Dr. Cheflk Husui is stated to be the soul of the organisation.—A. and N.Z. KOVNO, Tuesday. The police have made many ar‘jats in consequence of the discovery 'Communists’ organisations in t-ithuania.—A. and N.Z.