Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great intelligence and striving to make everything crystal clear, Prisoner Kamenev made his confession at such length that his lecture was interrupted four times by the changing of the soldiers guarding the prisoners' box. Gist of Kam-enev's confession was that Stalin's old enemy Leon Trotsky (ne Bronstein), who now lives exiled in Norway, had provided the brains, Kamenev and Zinoviev had supplied the intrigue in Communist Party circles inside Russia, and most of the other prisoners had handled the money, forged papers and weapons which at every attempt had failed to slay Dictator Stalin...
Norwegian police, who keep close and constant watch upon Leon Trotsky in his retreat near Oslo where he has been permitted to remain only on condition that he engage in no political activity whatever, inclined this week to the view that if Moscow really had anything on Trotsky as a conspirator against the life of Stalin which would stand up outside Russia, this evidence would long ago have been laid before the Norwegian Government by the Soviet Government with high-power diplomatic demands. The Norwegian Ministry of Justice recently investigated Exile Trotsky's affairs, ruled that no evidence...
...train and saw her safely out of Madrid. Last week proud Count Romanones was let out of a San Sebastian jail, reputedly after making "charitcble contributions" of 2,000,000 pesetas ($260,000). Arriving in France, he was obsequiously met by an undersecretary of the Cabinet of Socialist Premier Leon Blum. Snorted the old Monarchist: "I was not afraid because I knew I was protected by those I always had commanded and who always obeyed...
Another professional move was by Benito Mussolini who has been rushing every kind of Italian aid to the White forces battling Madrid. IL Duce kept this up until 48 hours before a great mass meeting of French radicals was about to force the hand of Premier Leon Blum with demands that his Cabinet rush similar aid to the Spanish Radical armies. At this psychological moment Premier Mussolini had his son-in-law Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano announce Italy's adherence, with reservations, to the French Cabinet's round robin, not to aid either side in Spain (TIME...
...Kristiansand this week exiled Leon Trotsky not only accused Joseph Stalin once more of fraud, fakery and framing innocents but challenged the Soviet Government to invite to Russia an international working class investigating commission, predicted, "All the charges would then break down...