GERMANY’S REPLY.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 342, 25 January 1937, Page 5

GERMANY’S REPLY.

TROTSKY’S OPINION. Americans Make Request For Romm’s Life Press Association —Copyright. Berlin, January 23. The Ministry of Propaganda, of which Dr. Goebbels is the head, describes the allegations against Germany of the accused in the Moscow trial are pure nonsense. It says: “These trials are only shams.” A New York message states that a copyright article, written by M. Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, says that the first trial, despite the 16 cadavers, was a cruel fiasco, making it necessary for a second trial. “There is not a word of truth in either the new accusations or the old,” he said. “I wish to ask again for an international body and for an investigation by the outstanding personalities of the different countries to whom I will submit all correspondence since 1928. I will launch anew my defiance of the falsifiers. I promise to demonstrate before such a commission that Stalin is the organiser of the greatest political crimes in the world’s history.” A grou-p of noted American and Washington correspondents and former colleagues of one of the accused, Romm, have cabled to the American Ambassador at Moscow asking for intervention in an effort to save Romm’s life, declaring that during his sojourn at Washington his loyalty to the Soviet was unquestionable.