Trotzky Out

According to a semi-official statement from Moscow, the protracted campaign waged against War Lord Leon Trotzky by the Bolshevik Triumvirate--Stalin, Zinoviev, Kemenev--came to an end.

At a plenary session of the Executive Committee and Control Commission of the Communist Party it was decided:

1) To oust Trotzky from the War Council.

2) To invite him to submit effectively to Party discipline.

3) To postpone to the next Party conference the question of re-employing the fallen"'War Lord.

4) To warn him that continual disobedience would result in his removal from the Political Bureau or Cabinet.

Ex-War Lord Trotzky is reported to have written to the Committee expressing his great regret that he could not be present. In this letter, which was probably modified to suit the Triumvirate, Trotzky declared that "Trotzkyism" (criticism of the Communist Party) was a spent political force and that he had had no idea that his book "1917" was to be made use of on political platforms.

Concluded he: "I reply emphatically that I am ready for any task, in any post or outside any post and under any control imposed by my party. It is useless to emphasize, that after recent discussions, our cause necessitates that I should be relieved of my post of President of the Revolutionary War Council." '