The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES


Accused Trotzky ANSWERS"
Why White Guards Liked It
A Hearst Recruit
WE CAN we'll understand
w why the Czarist white
guard sheet "Seven Days."
published in Paris, considered
Trotzky's ANSWER" to the
Kirov assassination indict-
ment, splendid material for
its purpose. Trotzkys article was
published as the leading item on
the first page of this organ which
calls for war against the Soviet
Union.
We should not be surprised if
Hearst uses it. 1t excels Richard
Washburn Childs, and Isaac Don
Levine in that it has the elements
of a shyster and a detective story
writer, all so dear to the heart of
Mr.. Hearst.
Trotzky, of course, sheds no tears
over the assassination of a Bolshe-
vik. To him a stain agent" has
been sent to his we'll deserved grave.
Trotzky sees in the whole situation
q gigantic plot on the part of Stain
to confound his enemies.
And TO buttress this second rate
detective story, S. S. van Reeve
Trotzky has to weave a tale which
makes of DR.. Flu Manchu seem in
reality historical figure.
We can well understand Trotzky's
embarrassment in the eyes of the
world proletariat when the facts
after the assassination of Kirov
showed that the Trotzky -zinoviev
group-that is, all the rag-tag and
bob-tail of the counter revolution-
airy dregs who had been flung into
one corrupt dung heap-had. in its
desperation, inspired terroristic acts.
and had received the assistance Of
foreign imperialist powers.
HENCE Trotzky concentrates his
Al answer on two points. First, on
the connects MS between himself
and the consul referred to in the
original Indictment Secondly, on
the completely in the murder of the
zinoviev-KameneV group.
1t is just too bad for Trotzky-
though excellent for his new field
of endeavor. detective yarns-that
since his article was written the 10
members of the Zinoviev- Kamenev
group faced proletarian court and
poured out their own filthy confess
sions. For Trotzky makes a big
point of the inability of the Soviet
Union to prove the zinoviev-K Kane
news cliques counter Revolutionary
deeds.
The whole world has since read
the confessions of zinoviev, Kane
nev, and especially of Evdokimov, as
well as the sixteen others who have
been tried and sentenced. Each of
them admitted he was carrying on
counter revolutionary &C tivities
against the Party, against the lead
ership, against the international
proletariat Only Trotzky denies it.
Kamenev doesn't, Zinoviev doesn't.
Before the worlds toilers and be-
fore all history, these individuals
protected by Trotzky stand self
convicted and condemned of the
assassination Of Sergei Kirov.
Trotzky will have to write an
other detective story to account for
the confessions of these rogues.
LIS next nightmare is the foreign
III consul Now Trotzky, as a
detective story declares first, there
probably was no such person, and,
second, if there was, he was an
agent, not of foreign imperialism,
but of Stain, or of the G. P. u.
Still more, the foreign consul, ac-
cording to Trotzkys detective
thriller, did not pay Nicholaev, the
assassin, and did not have connec-
tons with Trotzky, but he was paid
by the Soviet Union.
Since Trotzky's serial detective
yarn was published by the white
guard press, and later by the Can
non-Muste sheet here, a few facts
have come out: The consul involved
was none other than the Latvian
| Consul, BisseneckS, who received
| his training at the Court of St.
James and Henry Defending, the
most vicious enemy and inspirer of
war against the Soviet Union. This
Consul came from country with q
Fascist government in which Hitler
has great influence. Not a single
capitalist press in the world denied
the completely of this Consul and
a foreign imperialist power working
with nter-revolutionists and
white guards in the Soviet Union
who desired war for the destruction
of the proletarian dictatorship. The
worst scoundrels among them
argued only that this showed the
growing weakness" of the Soviet
government.
And in all this Trotzky stoops to
the lowest type of fiction to defend
a counter-revolutionary clique
(Which no longer defends itself.
While denying his own completely
he is taken up as brother by the
! degenerate remnants of Czarisn.