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...decision was made in the case of Polish-born U.S. Citizen Max Shachtman, 51, onetime friend and agent of Leon Trotsky, national chairman of a U.S. leftist faction: the anticapitalist, anti-Soviet Independent Socialist League. In 1953 Shachtman applied for a passport in order to get material for articles and lectures. During months of tilting with the State Department, he was granted an interview, refused a formal hearing before the Board of Passport Appeals and refused the passport itself. Reason: his league was on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations. When a U.S. District Court dismissed...
...Life and Teachings of Leon Trotsky" will be the subject of a speech by Max Shachtman, American translator and editor of Trotsky's works, in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House tonight at 8 o'clock. The talk is sponsored by the Socialist League, Fourth International...