Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1929, Page 28

‘SOVIET DIGTATOR FEARS TROTSKY Exiled Leader May Return as “Man on Horseback” Against Stalin. BY JOHN ELLIOTT. By Radio to The Star. BERLIN, February 8—When the Russian revolution broke out many political observers, recalling the fate ‘of the French Revolution, predicted ~that one day it would be terminated by #“the man on horseback.” That Leon Trotsky should ever emerge as the Napoleon of the October revolution may seem a bit far-fetched, yet this fear actually appears to possess Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, and his fol- lowers. That Trotsky was forenting a “Bonapartist movement within the Red army alleged by the Communist party machine as a justification for a recent dramatic rald on the homes left the opposition members in Moscow and | other cities of Russia. Now Trotsky | himself is to be banished from Russia, | according to the Berlin Rote Fahne, | official newspaper of the German | Communist party. “Attempts to split the Red army by | eounter revolutionary strike propaganda | in the factories and by anti-Soviet agi- | tation among the peasants” are the ex- ‘cuses given by the Rote Fahne for * Stalin’s decision to drive the most for- midable adversary into exile. If a year ago Stalin thought he could crush Trotsky by banishing him to distant Turkestan, he has been sadly disillus- sioned. Trotsky seems to have been able to keep in touch with his friends, | even in remote Alma Ata. Following Increases. | The economic crisis and the mis- takes committed by the Soviet govern- ment have resulted within the past year in a strong growth in the number of Trotsky’s followers. Especially among the young workers and in the army Trotsky seems to have many sympathizers. Certainly among all the leaders of post-war Russia, with the single exception of Lenin, Trotsky stands out _as the most admirable. Trotsky has steadfastly declined all overtures made by Moscow for & truce. Even the threat of death and the lone- liness of exile and the ravages of ma- laria have failed to daunt his courage. Last October Trotsky was permitted to come to Moscow from Central Asia by Stalin, who hoped to persuade his foe to abandon his opposition. Failing in this, Stalin trusted that he could at least bribe into silence the deadly tongue and still more dangerous pen of his rival, by offering him the old im- perial palace in sunny Crimea or the healthy Caucasus. Trotsky rejected these proffers with contempt, and broken in health, but unshaken in spirit, returned to endure the rigors of the Turkestan climate. Driven underground the Trotskyites have been printing their pamphlets on secret printing presses and circulating them among the workers and poorer peasants, One of the most effective arguments that is left the opposition members have employed is the conten- tion that Satlin after degrading Trotsky rian program- which saved kyites then claim that Stalin's depar- ture from the Trotsky policy of crush- ing the “kulaki” or the prosperous peas- + snts for the recent food shortage. H s ‘Trotsky achieved a strategical master stroke when he succeeded in “the true situation in Russia” out of the country and published abroad. getting | Broadway Delicatessen Co. “Pully conscious of my responsibility for what I am now about to say I de- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. clare that the Communist party, prin- cipally and before all, owes to Stalin the cruel massacre of the Chinese proletariat and the suppression of the Chinese revolution, the strengthening of the trade union minions and English imperialism after the general strike of 1926 and the general weakening of the position of the Communist internation- als and of the Soviet Union,” reads Trotsky’s fierce indictment of Stalin in his_book. ‘The most reliable evidence of the re- markable development of the Trotsky movement in Russia within the past year is presented by the Soviet authori- ties themselves who recently broadcast it in support of their drastic measures against the opposition. This stated that in the course of 1928 Trotskyites developed from a mere illegal group into an active anti-Soviet organization government, they are now making war against the Soviet Union itself. ‘The present year should see some dramatic developments in the Soviet Union. Stalin is fighting for his po- litical life along two fronts. On one side he is attacked by the “Right op- position,” whose leaders are men like Rykoff and Kalinin and who conduct their campaign by more diplomatic and tortuous and insidious methods than the Left opposition. But now as before the foe that Stalin fears most remains Leon Trotsky—the man who made the Red army a formidable fighting ma- chine and whose oratory and organiz- ing genius have made his name a legend. (Copyright, 1929.) MOLASSES USED AS BAIT | T0 TRAP CODLING MOTH Purdue Entomologist Finds lltis-i factory Substitute for Arsen- | ical Solution. } LAFAYETTE, Ind. (#).—A low grade | molasses solution to which geraniol has been added, has proven the most attrac- | tive bait for codling moths in a number | of experiments conducted by L. F.| Steiner, entomologist at Purdue Univer- | sity. | Steiner's work is a part of the nation- | wide effort to find something more | satisfactory than arsenical sprays for | controlling this serious and widupnldi enemy of apples and pears. In this| country and abroad markets have com- | plained against the arsenic. At present, | however, the spray is the best weapon | against the moth. | Position of the bait was found as| important a factor in determining its efficiency as the attrahent it contained. | The best sprays were located in the extreme tops of trees or high up on the | outside; where exposed rather than hidden by foliage, and where located in the higher parts of the orchard. GALES SHIFT SPIDERS. Insects Carried Overseas by Violent | Hurricane. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (#).—Evidence | that huricanes have carried spiders from Venezuels across the sea to the islands of the Lesser Antilles has been found by Prof. Alexander Petrunkevitch of Yale. He has studied, also, the possibility of the trade winds as spider carriers without finding any indication that these air currents spread the insects. 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