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COMMENT: Would a Home Secretary today refuse sanctuary to Leon Trotsky?
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WHEN THE Government files on the Pinochet affair are eventually
released, how will Jack Straw be judged? Although the nature of the
case is different, my question is prompted by the publication last
week of papers covering an asylum request 70 years ago, also to a
Labour Home Secretary, on behalf of another politician with blood on
his hands, Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky's titanic struggle with Stalin following the death of
Lenin had reached a climax in 1925 when they clashed over Stalin's
demand that recalcitrant party members should recant publicly at the
next Party Conference. Trotsky told ...
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