The Archive · 1938

French Denial of

ALLEGATIONS

M. Rosmer Asks Stoppage of Moscow Trial Paris, Mar. 6, Adding to the list of denials by various persons mentioned by the defendants in the treason trial in Moscow, M. Alfred Rosmer, a pioneer of extreme Socialism in France, today sent a telegram to M. Vyshinsky, Public Prosector, saying:

"I absolutely deny the assertion by Krestinski that I had met him in Berlin in 1928 and I demand a suspension of the trial until a refutation is made, Rosmer".

Krestinski, in his testimony at the trial had stated that Rosmer had given him large sums of money in Berlin in 1928.—Havas,

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