French Tie to Soviets, Sabotage of Mid-Europe, Won War for Hitler
Krivitsky, General Walter G.
French Tie to Soviets, Sabotage of Mid-Europe, Won War for Hitler By General Walter G. Krivitsky THE fate of France was not decided on the battlefield. It was determined during the years following...
...The Portugese attacked it twice, in 1513 and 1516...
...is not much to see except desert, probably accounts for the fact that there are only 367 private cars and 53 buses...
...As it was, the French permitted Central Europe to slip from their grasp into the eager hands of aggressive and purposeful Germans...
...It is now possible to make public information never before printed concerning aspects of the attempted assassination of Trotsky which bear out the confessions of guilt made reportedly to the Mexican police by Stalinists now under arrest...
...He shook the complacence of the French high ccr.-.mand by expressing his opinions on the French army with exceptional frankness...
...The implication was that he had been a Stalinist spy-Careful investigation has failed to turn up any proof of the allegation and one of the Stalinists responsible for it has since denied making it...
...The fact that Nazi Germany had its hand in Spain should have beer, decisive in 1PS6...
...Tbey knew that surrender to . Germani' . meant the end of France's independence...
...staff in no uncertain terms...
...None the less people continued to speak of the "superb" French officers' corps, without stopping to _m.ji.ji_» mm...
...New dictators seek to ensconce themselves in this unprotected desert spot...
...EVENTS were now moving...
...Trotsky, like so many of his late comrades in arms, lost the long distance, world scattered, bout with the inexorable Stalin...
...As a result of the attempted assassination and its aftermath, Trotsky has been compelled to delay his Work on the Stalin book...
...IT is idle to speculate on what would hsve been the * subsequent course of French politics if Laval and the French general staff had found legitimate reason to trust Stalin and count on the Soviet Union as a first-rate military power...
...Kyze was in Madrid during the war, worked for a time in the Loyalist government press/bureau and served the GPU there...
...shortly after a similar Leftist victory in Spain, the Lavai-Fiandin-peneral staff faction was thrown ir.tc a state cf panic...
...Lavs', stopped in Warsaw and met with Marshal Goering...
...Lava...
...The opportunity to check Hitler while there was time slipped by, as the French government and general staff hypnotized themselves into believing that the Nazis were arming to march against the Bolsheviks...
...In 1914, France under this military leadership escaped immediate defeat only because the Russian advance into East Prussia compelled the Germans to divide their forces...
...Deputy Henri de Keriilis, an extreme conservative, and Pertinax, the unofficial spokesman of the army, joined the pro-Russian chorus...
...Laval and Petain were stH...
...Today Aden is threatened again...
...When a Romanian diplomat was coolly received in Paris, he traveled home via Berlin...
...It was determined during the years following Versailles when France failed to organise Central Europe...
...The rumor was, for a time, somewhat helpful to the Stalinists, since it necessitated a wild-goose chase which diminished the efficiency of the investigatipn...
...At the same time he established close ties with industry...
...Obviously, Jackson's activity in Paris several years ago, his efforts "•*iain a friendship with Trotsky shows that this act was ordered •s the last step of the Moscow Trials—the destruction of every Old Bolshevik...
...Aden's history goes back a long way, for it has always been a key point for trade between Egypt and India...
...A talkative American Stalinist is responsible for the statement that some weeks before the attempted assassination, persons in the Casa Blanca were in possession of what purported to be floor-plans of the Trotsky residence...
...They heard the leaders of the French Communist Party harangue 'against the appeasers, attack Chamberlain and Daladier, demand that France stop Hitler with the support ctr the Soviet Union...
...Trail of Plotters on Trotsky's Life Leads to Hollywood Communist Group (This Article Was Written Before Trottky's Death...
...Then Stalin struck his blow by joining hands with Nazi Germany...
...T~ Fi:f~ Colu~ which now gov~rns France preferred to join Hitler-'s European "UIOn...
...These new states looked to France for guidance...
...For more than one hundred years it had been a military axiom that France couic not tolerate the establishment cf a hostile regime across the Pyrenees...
...Weary Italian troops, sniped at by guerilla Ethiopians, are set to cross the narrow straits...
...After looking *" things over, on thetgronnd,_Mar-garet Marshall reported from Mexico that the shooting at the Coyoacan home of Leon Trotsky several months ago was not a put-up job of Trotsky or his supporters, but a GPU project...
...By M.R...
...This was the result of Arab pirates raiding and plundering ships under British colors...
...Here was further evidence that Soviet Russia was a questionable partner...
...When they ran short of money, the French granted loans because cash was always plentiful...
...This, and the fact that there...
...The last census showed a "minority of 252 Europeans and some 17,000 Somalis, Hindus, Jews, Parsees and native Christians...
...France, which was hardly to the taste of Marsha...
...While France was iosing Spain...
...In spite of this somewhat hot and unfavorable picture, Aden, today a British Crown Colony, thrives and prospers...
...Cyr with the post-Hohenzolle'rn Reichswehr officers' corps...
...There are no railways in Aden, and only 32 miles of macadamized road...
...The French regarded him as an arrogant upstart and dismissed his arguments as juvenile...
...He returned : to France a professional traitor...
...They backed General France as the representative cf "order...
...I learned from several i;ldependent high French sources that in the interval between Chamaerlairf.s llight to Berchtesgaden and the Munich conferen~> Georges Bonnet cleaned , up a small fortune on the Bourse by cashing in on his knowledge that there would be no war...
...As Franco gained ground in Spain, th...
...He hoped that with an agreement with II Duce and the support of General Franco, he could put across s deal with Hitler Stalin came to the aid of Laval ir, June, 1937...
...The Romans tried unsuccessfully to capture it from its Arab chieftans...
...conferred in Spain with' a representative of Mar.shal...
...s leading prcponent of mechanized, power and one of the few outstanding military minds of Europe, visited Paris...
...The French general staff knew that Hitler was preparing for war...
...American Communists have particular reason to hope that the investigation of the details of the plot against Trotsky's life does not go far, since there are definite indications of American connections...
...Mourning for Trotsky falls more to his handpieked disciples than to the many who fought sectarian philosophy, his early ruthlessness, his ubiquitous dictatorial methods, his pungent vituperation...
...When the shooting first occurred some Mexican probing officials turned their backs on persons since apprehended and connected with the crime, and busied themselves heckling Diego Rivera who, according to these deep thinkers, was "theoretically" capable of complicity because he has had a political and personal feud with Trotsky for a couple of years...
...Last week's New Leader mentioned W. Colfax Miller as a former leader of Stalinist hijinks in Hollywood who later became a member of the Lincoln Battalion in Spain...
...They did not prepare for the war that was to come, because they were part of a dead era...
...when the Stalinist press has practically abandoned its attacks on Trotsky, and when the Cannon-led official American Trotskyites have worked themselves back to the threshold of their original 1928-33 position of being an outlawed but loyal faction of the Comintern...
...Among the residents are this W. Colfax Miller, a Miss Katherine Burke (also late of Hollywood and a friend of Miller), Ludwig Renn (well-known German Stalinist writer and military man), and a Swedish girl called Kyze (phonetic spelling...
...They permitted the Germans to exploit the disaffection of the large Ukrainian minority in Poland, instead of finding and enforcing a workable solution of Polish-Ukrainian differences...
...General Krivitsky's book "In Stalin's Secret Serv-ice" and his startling series which ran recently in the Saturday Evening Post, have established him as one of the world's most authoritative analysts of Soviet espionage, military and political activity...
...implicating a number of important army officers and seriously cotnp"romising the general staff...
...for France and all the dpp~ued peQples, to...
...That same force which reached out to snatch Juliet Poyntz, to grab Mark Rein (Abramovitch), to mangle Andres Nin, to abduct exiled Tzarist generals, to poison young Sedoff, to massacre Spanish radicals—that same mrce reacnea inio yuyuscan una ncu iu i>ui « ..,.,„ „io...
...nce, but of the m03t effective' fo1'lJ1 ot capitulatien...
...But the prerequisite for prosperity was stability...
...For eight' ~onths the guvenlment and general staff allowed French troops to remain idle in their trenches while German loudspeakers and leaflets peppered them with Nazi and Soviet /inti-war pl·opaganda...
...Instead of profiting from the defeat of 1870, the general staff disrupted France for more than a decade and brought it to the brink of catastrophe by its sordid part in the Dreyfus frameup...
...Not much excitement, and not much to'see—until now...
...On the other1 hand the appearance cf an alliance was steadily strenpthen-ir.c the position of the Communists :r...
...in the maneuvers to win Mussolini...
...In the accompanying article, written exclusively for The New Leader...
...Miller, who was an intimate of the Tuttles, Parkers, Hibernians and other leading movie commissars, is now in Mexico under interesting circumstances...
...And in 1538 the Turks took it and held it for 100 vears nnHI tho Vpmon iu Muu . ¦ ~ - — .v »"» — ~ ~ j .J Ult.ll bilC 1 tlllCll Arabs drove them out...
...On August 23, 1939, the faith of ' the common people of France was sh8:ttered...
...The people of France 'took it for granted...
...This little colony lives peacefully...
...i|EXICO CITY...
...Meanwhile, the reports reaching the French genera» staff indicated grcwir.g political and industrial chaos in Russia, making the value cf the Red army as an ally more questionable than ever...
...The best example was General Hans von Seeckt...
...Italian planes fly • A.W.,1...
...When the' conflict began, the Cpmnnmists were acting as Fifth Column propagandistS for Hitler, the general staff was still looking hopefully 10 Mussolini, and Georges Bonnet was' still Foreign Minifter...
...VBVTOUSLY some assistance had been' given the gunmen by-somebody who' knew the Trotsky setup...
...But the French high command acted as though the Germans were getting ready for a tea party...
...They sent military advisers to pattern armies after the French model, built little Maginot Lines and sold artillery, but that was all...
...Although a Prussian Junker, he did not hesitate to do business with the Bolsheviks...
...Its present population of over 46,000 is predominantly—not surprisingly— Arab...
...Red Cagoulards \X7ITH European history ** rocketing along at a stratoliner pace it becomes difficult to grasp immediately the entirely new concepts created by Germany's totalitarianism as it seeps into every cranny of world life...
...Though the main .trade consists of cargo transhipments, there are several local industries which result in exports—such as salt, whitebait and salt shark meat . Soap is also made and sold to Red Sea ports, and Jews and Greeks manufacture cigarettes from imported Egyptian tobacco...
...Premier Daladier, who was also Mini8~r of War, went to Munich as the man enjoying ''l;he special confidence of the general staff...
...therefore its own interest demanded that France tackle with energy and vision the problem of stabilizing these new European states, by sending engineers, business men and technical advisers and by forming a customs union that would make healthy development possible...
...When the Germans finally struck iD . force and bnached the defenses at Sedan, only a. h.ndful rallied Premie~ new tions from whIch to continue the stro.le...
...Yet with the security of France at stake, necessity forced the enemies of Bolshevism to seek Soviet Russia as a military ally...
...He obviously came well prepared for a violent disagreement on the subject—with an eight inch stilleto h> his sleeve-lining, an automatic in his pocket, and a pickaxe in his hand...
...former chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in western Europe...
...Petam and General Weygand...
...I was in Paris during the Su~ten crisis, when on the surface war seemed to be a' matter of hours...
...But Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet knew:' better...
...Two New York journalists and a New York attorney were informed by Stalinists that Harte, who had enrolled with the Trotskyites as a young man theretofore unaffiliated politically, had really been a Stalinist...
...But his assassination chills the civilized spines of a free world—horrifies it with the picture of a super-international police indefatigably, and with detailed, patient care, stalking its political enemy from the ancient Near East to France, to Norway, to the new world haven in a Mexican province...
...Opposite Aden lies Ethiopia, kept in turmoil by the quick roll of II Duce's tanks...
...required to plunge the world into war...
...It was this failure to see the real nature of the German dictatorship, .--.nc its organic liaison with its red counterpart to the North, which led the...
...Knowing that modern warfare demanded skilled workers, he was not afraid to deal with organized labor in Germany...
...He developed this limited force into a highly trained body of officers and technicians...
...Although they expected Poland to be a bulwark of French security, they did not concern themselves with whether the textiles o? Lodz found a market...
...They required a common economic and political program to enable them to prosper and grow strong...
...A major share of responsibility for the collapse falls on the French general staff...
...swiftly toward the last act...
...The German general staff planned totalitarian war, that is, war as it is now being fought...
...But that was not the picture the people of France sew...
...Once the plot had failed and the Mexican police had jailed Stalinists, there was little left for Moscow to lose...
...Marshal Goering summarized the German view in these words: "We have learned one lesson from the last war...
...It was prevented from prosecuting the conspirators and publicizing the facts by the , threats of the general staff...
...Just as "Jackson's" pickaxe exposed the exile's great brain so does this murder reveal the calculation, the time-biding far-reaching network created by the Russian dictator as a superstructure in the lives of all nations...
...Kt made clear his astonishment at the failure to mechanize and the absence cf an effective air force...
...Munition were found in Clermont-Ferrand, Boweaux and The -governmEmt had the evidence:: to expose the full . details of the plot...
...For 99 years the Aden peninsula remained a dependency of India until 1937 when it achieved its present status as a Crown Colony...
...t * tl/ITH the formation cf the Popular Front govern-'' ment in the spring of ,936...
...Yet when Marshal Pilsudski, whose troops were poised to seize the Westerplatte and occupy East Prussia, proposed a preventive war against Nazi Germany, he was rebuffed not only by the French politicians but by the generals as well...
...Krivitsky tells in detail the authentic story of French democracy's tragic demise...
...j VM^WO U.vy^illg U^'lllUJ...
...Goering's aviation intelligence service...
...The Franco rebellion came opportunely ir July, 1936...
...a NaZlfi*E~ope...
...At the, same time, dependable persons acquainted with Siqueiros and with Luis Aranhel, another Mexican painter whom the Mexican police are allegedly hunting in this matter, report their presence irl New York...
...tOgether ~th ithe names of the leading political and, military men [implicated in it...
...Harte>.disappeared when the gunmen fled...
...by parading the spectre of Bolshevism...
...The French general staff, through its Deuxiemt Bureau (Secret Service), was advised well in advance that a coup was coming and that Hitler and Mussolini were backing it...
...The progressive elements— the Socialist Party, the trade unions and the bulk of the middle-class Radical Socialists—were forced to accept the Communists as allies against fascism...
...As Germany began its press and 'radio campaign against...
...They were ice to believe that they had a mighty ally in the east...
...On the way back to Paris...
...If the French were slew to grant a new loan, Beck invited Marshal Goerir.g to join him in a boar hunt...
...Perhaps in the mnsty secrecy of important Stalin data will be marked the details of Trotsky's murder— details known only to the G.P.U...
...He was escorted to the ornate Moscow subway, dragged from one showplace to another...
...in Munich...
...This military caste was reactionary in the precise sense of the word...
...Now he deceived them, and gave Hitler t Jie assurance he...
...C*ROM 1919 to 1939, the general staff resisted every * effort to modernize the French army, fought against mechanization and the establishment of an independent air force, built the Maginot Line—a vast and expensive concrete trench that was to be the bitterest joke of the war—backed royalist and fascist plots to overthrow the Republic, supported General Franco and tried to win the friendship of Mussolini in the hope of erecting a Latin Holy Alliance as a counterpoise to German National Socialism...
...A prosperous postwar Europe would have been the best guarantee of security for France...
...General von Seeckt did not despair...
...With the iblessing of the general staff he consented to sacrilice Czechoslovakia to Hitler...
...In 1728, the Sultan of Lahej grabbed it and included it in his Sultanate, where it remained, and declined in importance until Great Britain annexed it—the first of,many such coups to be carried out in true Victorian style...
...Soon after he was found murdered, his body thrown into quicklime in a grave dug under a suburban house...
...Bolshevism" was on the march, ever, if it took the form of mild and largely ineffectual efforts tc curb the Bank of France, nationalize munitions and fix minimum wages...
...creator of the modern fJermnn nrmv -¦----—Treaty restrictions limited the Reichswehr to 100,000 men compelled to serve for twelve years...
...Poland, the French Communist spokesmen intensified their demands for a strong front against aggression...
...trouble Faces East Aden: South Arabian Port Holds Key to India m SkfEWSPAPERS have strange ways of centering world interest on sleepy far-off spots...
...vas negotiating privately with Mussolini...
...At the ieeisive hour Churehill pr?~sed t?e continuatioil of th~ war through a Franco-B:ntlSh union-the first C!Olicreti step toward a democ;&tic European union and the o~y remaining altern'tiv.e...
...When Tukhachevsky returned tc Moscow he expressed his view of the French genera...
...mount the Spanish throne that iec tc the war cf 1870...
...The gulf between democratic France and its enemies was wider than at any time since the Dreyfus affair...
...py 1934, France was confronted with some pretty *^ stern facts...
...Clues already apparent reveal the thoroughness of G.P.U...
...takes its place among the Borgia-filled horror corridors of ancient history...
...That meant preparedness for war to the hilt, with long-range mobilization of industrial resources and manpower...
...As the Germans ~ushed on, Laval, Flandin, Bonliet, Weygand and Petam were not thinking of new forms of resisqr...
...A QUESTION widely asked is why Stalin should want to kill Trotsky in a period when Trotsky is voicing primarily defenses-of the Red Army's invasion of Poland and other countries...
...Corruption, which reached its epitome in the Stavisky case, had repercussions in the riots of February 6th, an ill-planned attempt on the part cf old-fashioned reactionaries of royalist vintage to overthrow the Republic...
...They haven't even solved the problem of mobilization and don't seem to know that in the next war it's total mobilization or nothing...
...1536, Soviet Marshal Tukhachevsky...
...Disillusioned by Munich, the ·people of Frince counted more than ever on Stalin...
...One need but compare the products of St...
...Equally responsible were the politicians of the Laval-Flandin-Bonnet school, who squandered France's friendships and opportunities, her allies and her potential resources...
...Today it is the almost unknown city of Aden...
...With relations on this level, the French, as all victims of blackmail, paid plenty but got nothing in return...
...by executing Marshal Tukhachevsky and the other leading generals of the Red army...
...outright 1ueist elements in France grew bolder...
...This personal police s"ysera, these scurrying mysterious Soviet agents, spreading physical and political death, then being swallowed by the espionage mill which is the Comintern, will continue to cut down other victims until the G.P.U...
...As a result, Poland drifted along in a perpetual economic and political crisis...
...in five years of dealings with Stalin...
...Bonnet was not the only member of the Daladier:'cabinet who thought that playing ball with Hitler was, better sense than waging wat...
...The following spring he went to Moscow, where he was welcomed with the garish hospitality which the Soviet capital always extends on such occasions...
...A sultry, rainless dust spot, with two seasons—hot and very hot —forms what the British Empire builders refer to as a "gateway to the East...
...Deliberate attempts were begun by Stalinists, in New York to label as their inside man in the Trotsky house Sheldon Harte, the New York Trotskyite who was on guard duty when the shooting occurred...
...Poles, Romanians and Yugoslavs alike turned to blackmail when they realized that they were only the poor relations of France...
...For five years they bad believed that Stalin was their ally...
...whom he assured that his visit to Moscow did not shut the door tc an understanding between France and Nazi Germany...
...And as the Communist Party cashed w on the Franco-Soviet Pact, the fascist organizations naturally found new recruit...
...France, in turn, counted on them as a substitute for the defunct alliance with Russia...
...In the early summe1" of last year, the Conclusion of an ironclad military alliance between France and Russia seemed certain...
...Indeed it was the suggestion that a Kohen-zo.lerr...
...The politicians and business men of France did none of these things...
...9 IN THE suburb of Tacuba on the edge of Mexico City, is a hacienda whose main building is known as the Casa Blanca...
...Had they sent engineers and technicians instead of francs, the average Frenchman would have realized that his world did not end on the Maginot Line...
...PALSY (Palcy is the pseudonym of an important American journalist...
...It is not at all unlikely that the source of this "disinformation" was the New York arm of the GPU, seeking to cover the tracks of the Mexican gunmen...
...Laval, then Foreign Minister, took the plunge...
...Many people are not satisfied with the simple explanation that Stalin likes his last mead of revenge...
...cause of industrialist treason, it collapsed more rapidly because it was gutted by the Goebbels directed "pacifist" activity of the underground French Communist Party...
...More than ever there was reason to look for other fnends and to appease Hitler...
...Large oceangoing freighters churn their way past Aden laden with India's cotton, Manchester's textiles, Japan's silk, Persian oil, German machinery and scores of other ^products vital to a power economy...
...preparation...
...Its last exciting event was the appearance of four "battleships" and a naval "bombardment" of the port by British ships—in 1839...
...He sent idle officers to organize armies in China and South America, to broaden their experience by active staff .work...
...Openly skeptical on the value cf the Maginot Lire, he reminded the outraged generals that wars were won by attack, not by sitting in fortified positions...
...He persuaded leading industrialists to manufacture planes and artillery for the Reichswehr in Soviet Russia...
...In May...
...Another interesting fact about the attempted assassination is that the American press carries reports that Mexican police are watching the west coast port of Manzanilla to intercept David Alfaro Siqueiros, famous painter and no-less famous Stalinist agent charged with having been one of the gunmen...
...The Casa Blanca people, says this Stalinist, discussed candidly and repeatedly how important for the good of humanity it was that Trotsky be killed...
...This is Aden, key port on the south coast of Arabia at the southern end of the Red Sea, the short water route to the relatively still unexploited India...
...Had he been killed, 3? course, Stalin's factional advantage would have been even greater, r/Thermidor and Brumaire' COMJ5WHERE in the Soviet archives a dossier marked ¦ Leon Trotsky (Leba Bronstein) is being quietly filled with final clippings and made ready for the closed files...
...Perhaps it should not be overlooked that Trotsky is engaged on a life of Stalin which, however firmly it will defend the Soviet Union as a workers' state entitled, in principle to follow a foreign policy such as that of Stalin-Hitler, is sure to take some more skin off the back of the Borgia of the Kremlin...
...Vet at this juncture the gener?is fergot the elementary premise of French security and became politicians...
...Such was not the case...
...The country was in a state of economic turmoil...
...we must not lose the next...
...wic x iciiLii aiuxie i.au not won a major victory since the Napoleonic epoch...
...This building is a Stalinist barracks housing numerous comrades and considerable armament...
...France emerged from the last war with the opportunity to reconstruct the continent according to any pattern it saw fit...
...Instead of an immedfate offensive on the Weatern Front to relieve the Poles who were fighting courageouily against terrible odlls came the sitdown on the Maginot Line...
...I've never met such a pack of old fools in my life," he told his colleagues...
...The Treaty of Versailles had created Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and greater Rumania...
...Marsha: Petain watched with sympathetic interest the progress cf his erstwhile pupil of the Moroccan campaigns—so much so that he surrendered the Pyrenees tc the Axis...
...They allowed'their allies to shift for themselves...
...maneuvering :with Kussolini and Franco at ' this time, but otbers were one step ahead on the "road to treason: I ~kriow that Jacques Doriot, the chief of the fascist ' Popular Party and former Communist mayor of St . ..DenniS...
...and, finally, in Moscow on August 23, 1939, when the Nazi-Soviet pact was signed...
...A number of high French officers, on leave cf absence, went tc Salamanca a? "observers...
...As this t illusion grew, the French Communist Party became a key factor in France for the first time, winning a large section of the workers...
...The German general staff accepted Hitler because, whatever his other shortcomings, he adopted their view that war could not be fought with half-measures...
...Block remains the regular Mexican correspondent of the Nation...
...It was made there by one, Harry Bfock, a ¦ f ellow-trayeling employee of Lombardo Toledano, Mexican Stalinist Number One...
...Yet reports that came from the "escort" provided by the Kremlin indicated that Laval was not impressed by all he saw in Russia...
...He met Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinov in Geneva in November, 1934, and signed the preliminary draft cf a mutual assistance pact...
...They forced the government to adopt the suicidal policy of nonintervention...
...The Battle of France was lost during the years of peace by the politicians and generals who now head the vassal government in Vichy...
...Strongly clerical, pro-royalist, with a mystic faith in the peasantry, men like Marshal Petain and General Weygand regarded the revolution of 1789 as an unfortunate chapter of history...
...Meanwhile Hitler was rapidly re-arming Germany...
...It never occurred to the average ;Frenchman thai it was possible to welch on the Oeechs...
...French industrial hierarchy to strike its "bargain" with Hitler —and so indirectly with Stalin...
...Early in 1938, the . Fnmch government discovered a vast· anti-republican plot of the Cagoulard3, a secret mili~ organization...
...Leon Trotsky, the most pathetic revolutionary figure since Danton...
...None the less the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance pact was signed—by anti-Soviet French politicians who knew that the Red Army was a cuesti?n mark, and by Russians whe were maneuvering for a better dea) with Hitler...
...On Van der Dreschd's person—seemingly in case he was shot on the spot— *»s a declaration that he had quarreled with Trotsky when the latter ordered him to Russia to commit sabotage...
...From Stalin he received assurances of the loyalty of the French Communist Party in the event cf war...
...They ignored the preparations for totalitarian war across their border, ignored both industry and labor at home, and dreamed of the restoration of a clerical-peasant regime...
...Few men are as capable, as informed, to tell the story of anti-French intrigue inside France, as is General Walter G. Krivitsky...
...What Miss Marshall did not mention in her comment in the Nation was that the charge that Trotsky rigged an attack on himself had been made not only in candidly Stalinist publications, but also in the Nation...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 34
