the advanced workers as loudly as we can: After the ‘third period! of recklessness and boasting the fourth period of panic and capitulation has set int In an almost desperate effort to arouse the comaunists, Trotsky — put into words the whole power of his conviction and gave them once again the ring of an alarm bell: ‘'Workers-communists{! There are hundreds of thousands, there are millions of you.... If fascism comes to power it will ride like a terrific tank over your skulls and spines. Your salvation lies in merciless struggle, Only a fighting unity with social democratic workers can bring victory, Make haste, communist workers, you have very little time to lose,t" oo. oo The second example is Trotskyts admonition of. Trygve Lie, who later became head of the United Nations, . The then Minister of Justice in the Norwegian government put Trotsky under house arrest, barred him from answering the charges in the infamous 1936 Moscow frame-up trial, and even cut him off from correspondence, Lie attempted to force Trotsky to sign a shameful agreement not to make any statements referring to the Moscow frame~up trial, in which Trotsky and his son were principal victims, and to submit the mail, telegrams and telephone calls of himself, his wife and secretaries to. censorship, "Twenty years later eye-witnesses: of the scene still remembered the flashes of scorn in Trotsky's eyes and the thunder of his voice as he refused to comply." He levelled a series of. damaging questions at Trygve Lie.
"At this point Trotsky raised his voice so that it resounded through . _'the halls and corridors of the Ministry: 'tThis is your first act of surrender to Nazism in your own country. You.will pay for this, You think yourselves secure and free to deal with a political exile as you please. But the day is near -- remember this! -- the day is near when the Nazis will drive you from your country, all of you. together with > ‘your Pantoffel-Minister-President. * Trygve Lie shrugged at this odd piece of soothsaying. Yet after less than four years the same government had indeed to flee from Norway before the Nazi invasion; and as the Ministers and their aged King Haakon stood on the coast, huddled together and waiting anxiously for a boat that was to take them to England, they recalled with awe Trotsky's words as a prophet's curse come true,"
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