The Archive · 1936

Trotsky Interviewed

Oslo, Aug. 27.

"that burcaverat Stalin has killed the Bolshevist parly." said M. Leon Trotsky in a special interview with the United Press, carried telephone because guards would not permit M. Trotsky to receive visitors, 'M. Trotsky said that M. Josef Stalin, secretary-general of the Communist party of the USSR. the successor to the so-called "Bolshevik" party, represents the privileged ruling caste, and that Stalin "fears the people, who live In ever Increasing' misery.

The arrest of General Patna has caused a considerable sensation here, particularly in view of the circumstances under which it took place. Two days before General Patna was summoned to Moscow under the pretext that his presence was urgently required there ai 9 military conference, the "Evening News" had published a report declaring that two members of the Gepu, the Soviet secret police, had searched all private correspondence and other documents of the stof Of the Soviet Embassy—Trans-Ovean Kuo Min.

Leon Trotsky "Interned Oslo, Aug. 29.

The Norwegian Minister of Justice has decided to "intern" the exiled Bolihovist cader, Leon Trotsky, and Tt is stated that they will be cor fined to their present house until a new domicile can be found for them.

Two of Trotsky's secretaries will be immediately expelled from Norway.

The reason given is that Trotsky has declined to accept the conditions imposed by the Norwegian Government when he sought permission 10 reside in Norway,—Ruter.

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