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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1937.

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Taken in conjunction with the recent establishment of the

Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party and bons of Russia.

This fight was

not fought out in an arena like the boxing ring

where Ben

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Осса-

Stalin

versus

Trotsky

LEON TROTSKY romanile... Imaginative,

THE

THIRTEENTH

ROUND

Thomas Aquinas, and out went Sogo.

Young "Koba" (that was his next alias) formed a local Marx- ist group and took a leading part in the strikes them sweeping the oilfield. He was jailed: In prison he instructed his cell- mates in Marxism.

When he got out he carried on a guerilla war against the Czarist Government. At Tiflis in 1907 he staged the bombing of a bank convoy, and got away with £34,000. Every penny he turned over to the revolutionary сливе. Litvinov cashed the boads in Paris.

Stalin had a machine. He also had an idea which has triumphed. ngainst Trotsky's Stalin's iden was that of "Socialism In one country." He meant that Russia could build up a Socialist State alone, and then become the fortress of world Socialism. He has made her a fortress right enough, though many are begin. ning to wonder what kind of Socialism it is.

TROTSKY developed the op-

posite idea, the "theory of permanent revolution." By that he meant that unless the re- volution spread through all other

JOSEPH STALIN patient shrewd.

lands the jealous capitalists would strangle Social- ism in the one Socialist State..

Trotsky WGA ready to go on fighting.

perialist

im-

Ger-

many in 1917

to give the Ger man workers time to risc. Stalin thought of the Russian workers who wanted to have peace right away.'

Stalin has now made an alliance with capitalist France

Не алув

Two men were on trial for bent them with rifle butts as Government

they ran past. Stalin walked, Trotsky, next on the scene, rising because they see Russia

When Lenin

to strengthen Russia Soviet against Nazi Germany. vice, the facilities now provided the crown off Jack Petersen's THERE is a picture of Stalin at Stalin was first home. He Trotsky says that he thereby

this time, after the suppres- sidled into Petrograd and got for telephonic communication behead. It was staged in the

Soviet law courts, and by proxy, sion of a strike. The prisoners busy fomenting trouble. But he prevents the French workers from rising against their tween the two centres are of the for neither Stalin nor Trotsky had to ran the gauntlet of the was ready to work for a time capitalist masters. utmost value to business men were there.

savage Selyansk Regiment, who with the Liberal Provisional that the German workers of Kerensky. are likewise discouraged from both here and in the northern port. The enterprise of the their lives: Karl Radek and proud and sullen. He was the vehemently demanded a second siding with the French in a

Gregory Sokolnikoff, both Hongkong Telephone Company

famous Bolshevist leaders, mem- toughest agitator in the oilfield. and Socialist revolution. Lenin struggle between two rival and the Chinese authorities in bers of Lenin's own

By this time, 1904, the Rus- arrived finally, and, siding with capitalisms. "Old sian Socialists had split into two Trotsky, gave Stalin the rough | supplying the new link is alreadyGuard." They were charged factions-the Bolshevika, led by side of his tongue. Events Stalin has won against being rewarded by a steady flow with conspiring the death of Lenin, and the Mensheviks, to rushed on towards the October Trotsky, anyway. (Coloraturo-Soprano) C-2770 Shadow Song (Dinorah)

Stalin, who succeeded Lenin. The whom Trotsky adhered. The insurrection.

died he left a will telling the of business, and as time goes on prosecution said that Trotsky Bolsheviks refused any accom- Lenin ordered the rising, party to put Stalin out of his it is to be expected that this will was behind the plot.

modation with any other party. Trotsky and Stalin carried it out. job as secretary. Stalin kept increase in volume. Business Stalin hated, feared, and They were bent on arranging And almost immediately after that will from public gaze. He

Trotsky Over

the an insurrection. Stalin was a wards they got to loggerheads. made a coalition with Zinoylev men are loud in their apprecia- fought

succession. Trotsky despised Bolshevik,

Stalin bitterly resented the and Kamenev, each of whom tion of the verbal contacts now and ignored Stalin,

He hated Trotsky and all other immense authority the Revolu- hoped to succeed to Lenin's made possible. Air mail and Now Stalin, who has driven Mensheviks. Indeed, he disliked tion conferred on Trotsky, the mantle, to down Trotsky. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. cable services still fill a necessary Trotsky out, stripped him of his the whole theoretic argument, newcomer in the Bolshevist They beat Trotsky. Stalin's role in the realm of commerce, honours, even blacked out his and spoke contemptuously of ranks. When Trotsky, as War machine, doling out jobs, helped At Commissar, began to officer the that. However, when Zinoviev, fame in the Soviet history books, "the tempest in a teapot.' and they can be and still are in- means to clean-up Trotskyism the time of it, anyway, he had Red Army with former Czarists who had a contempt for Stalin's been behind the bars of Batum Stalin dreaded that a new theoretic knowledge, tried to valuable for supplementing tele- once and for all.

jail for plain honest-to-goodness Napoleon was arising.

seize control he found himself phonic communication.

They were born in the same agitating against the boss. So he began to build up a and Kamenev both pushed out of stons arise, however, when there year, 1879; they entered revolu-

HOWEVER, Stalin has found counter power stronger thing the party, tionary politics almost together; his Bolshevism and Trot- than anything else in the State, is need of urgent detailed infor- they were jailed, thrashed,

then to line up with Trotsky mation on market conditions and exiled, in the same cause. They sky's former Menshevism the machine of which he was secre- THEY made a desperato effort

strongest of all the weapons he tary. in regard to specific contracts, share equally untere else, it has used against his enemy. IN the civil war he interfered against Stalin, that despised man responsibility of the Bolshevist Since Russia has deified Lenin constantly with the Red High of theory and most practical man and it is in this respect that the uprising of 1917. Needless to and actually mummified him Command, asserting his au- of affairs. Too late. Trotsky method of conversation by word say, Stalin's name is not Stalin, Stalin has never ceased to rake thority as representative of the was exiled in 1928. Zinoviev of mouth cannot be surpassed and Trotsky's is not Trotsky.

up his own impeccable orthodoxy central committee of the party, and Kamenev threw in the towel when the parties are separated TROTSKY'S name is Lyev and compare it with Trotsky's On the whole Lenin sided with and made up to the conqueror.

Davidovich Bronstein. His "heresy."

Trotsky.

Now, these two brothers-in- by hundreds of miles. A few father was a Jewish farmer, and 1914-1917-cannon .roared, Besides, Lenin feared Stalin's law and brothers-in-conspiracy moments' actual talk over the Trotsky was born in the village and forty million men tramped party bureaucracy as the greater have been shot for plotting with telephone often serves to of Yanovska, in the steppe land the earth under arms. Three menace. The power of the army Trotsky, and Radek and Sokol- of the Ukraine. He was sent to years of war broke down the would be reduced when war nikoff, their successors, have straighten out a tangled situa-school in Odessa, but he was soon dams in Russia and let loose the ended. But the power of the been lucky, according to Russian tion, whilst, in the matter of con- kicked out for lending a student pent-up forces of thirty genera- bureaucracy would grow. standards, to escape the same tracts entered into, deals can be revolt. Then he graduated into tions. The Czariat autocracy It has grown like a great toad- fate.

the serious business of revolu- collapsed like a chicken-house in stool. Lenin died before he Stalin would not have bother- quickly arranged and confirmed tion and landed in. Odessa jail, a gale. The first Russian re- could check it. Now Stalin him- ed to hit them at all unless he by cable subsequently. The After that he followed the well. volution took place in February, self is trying to check it with his meant now to put Trotsky down

Lenin was in Switzerland with new Constitution. In the mean for the count. Colony's new link with Shanghai worn route of agitators, to

Moscow and thence to Siberia, Radek, Trotsky was in New time, however, he has managed

Frank Owen is, however, but the forerunner

pretty well to obliterate Trotsky. of other and more important Djugashvili. He is no Russian

Stalin's name is Vissarion York. Stalin was in Siberia. facilities which are promised, either, but a Georgian, son of When these are realised, in about a shoemaker of Gori, near. Tiflis in the Caucasus. He is a man three months' time, Hongkong of the mountains, Trotsky a man will be able to talk with London, of the plain; yet Trotsky is the and, through the great metro-proud, romantic and imaginative | politan centre, with practically figure, while Stalin has the any part of the world. "What shrewd, coarse, patient charac

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from But nowadays, apart amusing and totally unconvincing commercialise too obvious to need stressing. NOT that Stalin's life lacks realise that 1930 was a memorable By "AN OLD STAGER" professional prophets who ingenious human superstition, there is a It is of interest, however, to colour. Indeed, he has more year. Things happened during that

Since the history of the world be- rather general outlook of gloom. point out that there are some desperate daring deeds to his sensational twelve months which his- torians will write large even in smail thirty million telephone sub-record than his rival. Trotsky school primers, And now what of gan, there have been prophets. And Without going into precise and the secular ones, at any rate, have perilous detalls, many respectable twice escaped from Siberia, 19377

never varied in one particular. The people shake their heads tragically. scribers on various lines at pre-driving through the wolf packs

There are peculiarly gifted vision- Old Mopres of to-day are every bit over the state of the world

The chief obsession, amongst these sent, and when the contact with of the forests. for 700 miles. Larics, like the venerable Old Moore, as circumlocutory and equivocal as London is established Hongkong Stalin broke jail thirteen times who profess to know what the next was the Delphie-Oracle-of-two thou gloomy prophets, la u dread, that we afflicted with another and may be with sand years ago. will be able to get into touch before the revolution finally set twelve months have in store for us. But foretell with

Cassandr

though they are. with ninety per cent. of this him free and put him in charge confidence what time hus in store for Discretion has been far more the possibly a worse Great War.

valour: This divine uncer of the policemen. number. This Colony is cer

humanity even a few, wecks ahead. torta punt of prophecy than of their great disservice is that, un- widely thes the established: Even the

believed. Stalin also was expelled from hete. Uke the WC: Dopular pro-] tainty about the future, this human never

more humdrum sport- certainty that what's to come is still

It works immense harm to a peo- school. His fond mother put her ing upsters, inferentially confess so unsure, is perhaps one of the most wie matter of communication favourite son "Soso, no she call- much by the elaborate way in which priceless possessions in lite. How ple to un for ever going with the outside world, even if him into the seminary at they convey their predictions, not to many of us, if we knew what was to some overwhelming calamity. More we have previously somewhat. Tilla They caught him read-plum, blunt trefully chosen fortitude to refrain from closing theme, at the end of his days, that they

straightforward state-come, would have the courage and than one wise old man has assured lagged behind.

ing Karl Marx Insteed of ambiguity.

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