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For 12 years two men have fought to be boss of Russia TO-DAY

BIG Fight has

just been staged in Moscow.

Perhaps it will be the very last round of the fero cious struggle of two men without any trouble or complica for the championship of the tion to yourself. . dollvered Red world. The battle to you at home and subsequently in Hongkong,

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On the Left. Leon

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On the Right, Josef Stalin, present General

Hongkong Telegraph. Secretary of the

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1037,

NEW LINKS Taken in conjunction with the recent establishment of the

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

This fight was

not fought out in an 'arena like the boxing ring where Ben

Stalin

versus

Trotsky

LEON TROTSKY romantic.

Imaginative.

THE

THIRTEENTH

ROUND

Thomas Aquinns, and out went Saso,

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

In

When he got out he carried on સી. 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 cause, Litvinov cashed the bonds in Paris.

Stalin had a machine. Ho also had an idea which has triumphed against Trotsky's. Stalin's idea 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 Iden, the "theory of permanent revolution." By that ho meant that unless the re- volution spread through all other

JOSEPH STALIN patient ... shrewd.

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

Trotsky was ready to go on fighting perialist

im...

Ger-

many in 1917 to give the Ger- man workera time

to

rise.

Stalin thought of the Russian workers who wanted to have peace nway.

right

Stalin has now made An alliance with capitalist France to strengthen Soviet Russia against Nazi Germany.

Hongkong-Shanghai aerial ser-Foord battered Dancing (To-

|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 for telephonie communication behead. It was staged in the this time, after the suppres- sidled into Petrograd and got prevents the French workers

Soviet law courts, and by proxy, sion of a strike. The prisoners busy fomenting trouble. But he from tween the two centres are of the for neither Stalin nor Trotsky had to run the gauntlet of the was ready to work for a time capitalist masters.

rising against their He says utmost value to business men were there.

savage Selyansk Regiment, who with the Liberal Provisional that the German workers both here and in the northern wo

beat them with rifle butts as Government of Kerensky. men were on trial for they ran past. Stalin walked, Trotsky, next on the scene, rising because they seo Russia are likewise discouraged from 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

By this time, 1904, the Rus- arrived finally, and, siding with capitalisms. of Lenin's own "Old sian Socialists had split into two Trotsky, gave Stalin the rough supplying the new link is already Guard." They were charged factions the Bolsheviks, 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. When Lonin

Stalin, who succeeded Lenin. The whom Trotsky adhered.. of business, and as time goes on prosecution said that Trotsky Bolsheviks refused any accom

The Insurrection.

died he left a will telling the 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. men are loud in their apprecia-fought

Stalin was a wards they got to loggerheads. made a coalition with Zinoviev 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 mall and

Now Stalin, who has driven Mensheviks. Indeed, he disliked tion conferred on Trotsky, the mantle, to 'down Trotsky. 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 When Trotsky, as War machine, doling out jobs, helped honours, even blacked out his and spoke contemptuously of ranks. role in the realm of commerce, fame in the Soviet history books, "the tempest in a teapot." At Commissar, began to officer the that. However, when Zinoviev, 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 valuable for supplementing tele-once and for all.

theoretic knowledge, tried to jail for plain honest-to-goodness Napoleon was arising Occa phonic communication.

They were born in the same agitating against the boss.

seize control he found himself So he began to build up a and Kamenev both pushed out of sions arise, however, when there year, 1879; they entered revolu- HOWEVER, Stalin has found counter power-a stronger thing the party.

tionary politics almost together; II his Bolshevism and Trot- than anything else in the State, is need of urgent detailed infor-they were jalled, thrashed, mation on market conditions and exiled, in the same cause. They sky's former Menshevism the machine of which he was seero- THEY made a desperate effort

strongest of all the weapons he tary.

then to line up with Trotsky in regard to specific contracts, responsibility of the Bolshevist Since Russia has deified Lenin

share equally, under Lenin, the has used against his enemy. IN the civil war he interfered against Stalin, that despised 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 constantly with the Red High of theory and most practical man 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 Kamenov threw in the towel when the parties are separated TROTSKY'S name is Lyoy and compare it with Trotsky's On the whole Lenin sided with and made up to the conqueror. by hundreds of miles. A few father was a Jewish farmer, and

Davidovich Bronstein. His "heresy."

Trotsky.

Now, these two brothers-in- 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

Three menace. often serves to of Yanovska, in the steppo land the earth. under arms.

The power of the army Trotsky, and Radek and Sokoł 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 Ruesian tion, whilst, in the matter of con- kicked out for leading 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 Czarist autocracy It has grown like a great toad- fato.

the serious business of revolu. collapsed like a chicken-house in stool. Lenin died before he 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 Colony's new link with Shanghal worn route of agitators, to Lenin was in Switzerland with new Constitution. In the mean for the count.

Moscow and thence to Siberis, Radek.. Trotsky was in New time, however, he has managed is, however, but the forerunner

York. Stalin was in Siberia. pretty well to obliterate Trotsky.

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in the Caucasus. He is a man 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

Stalin would not have bother-

Frank Owen..

WHY ALL THIS WAR

ET nobody complain that the

politan centre, with practically figure, while Stalin has the times, however out of joint, ore | any part of the world. What shrewd, coarse, patient charac-in the least monotonous. Looking

this will mean to commerce is

ter of the peasant,

TALK?

MUCH HEAD-SHAKING

the

But nowadays, apart from wistfully back on events that shaped

amusing and totally unconvincing their destiny under our poses, Wo too obvious to need stressing. NOT that Stalin's life lacks realise that 1930 was a memorable B "AN OLD STAGER" professional prophets who ingenious endeavour to commercialise It is of interest, however, to colour. Indeed, he has more year. Things happened during that

human superstition, there A point out that there are some desperate daring deeds to his sensational twelve months which his-

Since the history of the world be rather general outlook of

gloom. torians will write large oven in small

into precise and thirty million telephone sub-record than his rival. Trotsky school primers. And now what organ, there have been prophets. And Without going int

twice escaped from Siberia, 10377

the secular ones, at any rate, have perilous detalls, many respectable scribers on various lines at pre-driving through the wolf packs

never varied in one particular. The people shake their heads tragically There are peculiarly gifted vision- Bent, and when the contact with of the forests for 700 miles. aries, like the venerable Old Moore Old Moares of to-day are every bit over the state of the world,

as circumlocutory and equivocal as The chief obsessión, amongst these London is established Hongkong Stalin broke jail thirteen times who profess to know what the next was the Delphic Oracle of two thou gloomy prophets, is a dread that, we may be aflleted with another, and will be able to get into touch before the revolution finally set twelve months have la store for us. sand years ago get

But

nobody can actually foretell with Discretion has been far more the possibly a worse Great Wore And

"for"more" with ninety per cent. of this him free and put him in charge conddence what time has in store for better part of prophecy than of their great disservice is that, un- number. This Colony. Is cer-

of the policemen.

humanity even a a few weeks ahead.

cad. mortal valour. This divine, uncer- like Cassandra, though they are Even the established

tainty about the future, this human i nover Inspired the Monk popular pro- taint

are widely tainly now making progress in

Stalin also was expelled from phets, like the more humdrum sport the matter of communication Savourite song mother call much by the cluborate way in which priceicas possessions in life. How ple to be for ever going. In Castor of

school. His fond mother put her ing tipsters, inferentially confess so unsure, is perhaps one of the most. It works immense harm to a with the outside world, even a favourite on "Soso," as she call they convey their predictions, not to many of us, it we knew what was to some overwhelming, calamity, Mons we have previously : somowhat Tiflis. They caught him rend plain. blunt, straightforward state come, would have the courage and than one wise old man has assured / lagged behind.

ing

Karl Marx instead

ment, but in çarefully chosen fortitude to retrain from closing the | me, at the end of his days, that the of ambiguity.

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