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Lenin in October (Amkino). For over a year U. S. Stalinists have been noisily picketing the film Tsar to Lenin (TIME, March 22, 1937), prepared by Trotskyist Author Max Eastman from newsreels and film records of the Russian revolution. Reason: the reels showed Old Bolshevik Leon Trotsky as the busiest and best aide, discovered Stalin in but one group shot, standing obscurely to Lenin's left in a bad light...
...arrest, and I believe that I am, still a Bolshevik. I did not speak the truth before my examiners.† I lied, of my own free will. I will tell the truth now so that it will reach the ears of the Soviet Government heads. I am not a Trotskyist...
Cautious Publisher Max Schuster (Simon & Schuster), when asked by Trotskyist Author Max Eastman what he thought of the Soviet purge, said: "My own attitude is one of sympathetic bewilderment...
Planned Economy, an official Soviet organ which the state had scheduled for publication last June, finally came out last week. Accusing "Trotskyist wreckers and spies" of having "wormed their way" into highest officialdom in order to wreck planning at its source, Planned Economy declared: "Wreckers designated the construction of immense industrial enterprises at places far from raw materials, electric power and water resources. They hampered the development of districts possessing huge raw materials, resources and minerals, and they retarded the construction of important military enterprises...
...Union what it is today-the Stalinist forces - now largely dominate Leftist Spain or not. Last month worried Manhattan socialists sent Associate Editor Sam Baron of the Socialist Call to investigate conditions in Barcelona and Valencia where were occurring the trials of several prominent Spanish labor leaders for fomenting "Trotskyist riots." Mr. Baron, onetime New York president of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union, has been active in leading U. S. organizations working for Leftist Spain. Instead of being permitted to "observe conditions" in Valencia, Socialist Baron found himself abruptly clapped into jail, managed to smuggle out news of his plight...