The Archive · 1935

Soviet Leader Forced to Resign

Moscow, June 7.

The chairman of the Executive Committee for the Transcaucasian Republics, Yenikidse, who is one of Comrade Stalin's oldest and closest collaborators, has been deposed from office and compelled to resign from all Communist party posts by the Party Supervision Commission, An official announcement to-night revealed his expulsion has been on the grounds of political and moral corruption. This drastic action was taken by a plenary session of the Central Executive Committee—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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