Show NOT NOTTO N NOTTO 01 TO BE OUSTED FROM FRANCE Paris Off Officials Will Wilt Refuse to Grant Extradition to Russia Br BY Associated Press PARIS Dee Dec 27 French 27 French officials official said today that Leon exiled former communist le leader der was wa safely hidden In France and even cven If the Soviets ask his extradition he will not be surrendered The soviet government announced at Moscow that Leonid confessed slayer of Sergei Kiroff at at Leningrad had Implicated Trotz Trotz- ky rcy in a plot to assassinate various arious leaders o of soviet Russia The French officials said the widely widely widely wide wide- ly known revolutionary was a long distance from Paris living quietly and closely watched They said secret secret secret se se- cret service men were on guard both to protect him and to prevent him from Crom engaging in undesirable ties kept Is-kept is in France it was explained because no other country country country coun coun- try is willing to take him France Francc Harbors Exile France because of her traditional policy o of harboring political refugees ref ref- was said to be unwilling to force Corce him to leave on the g grounds gounds that such action would be equivalent to sending him to death or to prison The French government said sold that Soviet Russia had not asked extradition and that the soviet embassy em cm- bassy insisted it r regarded as a private person and not a soviet soviel citizen and that it did not expect I any instructions to seek his ext extradition I adi-I tion or even eyen to request his ion tion ion MOSCOW Dec 27 The The The soviet government acted speedily today against a band of young communists charged with having plotted the assassinations assassinations as as- of Joseph Stalin and andl other high leaders with the aid of the exiled Leon The assassinations were to be followed followed fol fol- fol lowed the government alleged by bythe bythe bythe the intervention o of capitalistic pow pow- ers Alleged Plotters Held Fourteen alleged plotters including including including ing Leonid held since the slaying of Sergei Kiroff high party official at Leningrad December 1 I were turned over to a military col col- o of the supreme court for trial Swift justice for terrorists and immediate immediate immediate im im- im- im mediate execution of those convicted has been ordered by the government in its determined drive druc to stamp out terrorism and already have been sent to firing squads since Kiroff's death After Arter weeks of or grilling members of his family and associates Continued on Page Pace Two To FRANCE GUARDS RUSSIAN EXILE Soviet Request for Extradition Extradition Extradition tion of Will Not Be Granted Continued from Pace Pait One Ond government officials issued an announcement announcement announcement an an- that he had confessed Implicating the others and now in hiding in France Paris Pans dispatches said Russia was ex expected to request France to expel who had been once ordered to leave that country because of ol alleged al nl dabbling in its politics He apparently apparently ap ap- ap was unable to obtain admission admission sion to another country Plotters Organized Confessions attributed to the plotters plotters plot plot- and testimony of or witnesses just published showed now how thoroughly the little group was pledged to overthrow overthrow over over- throw the present party leadership and how sincerely expected expect expect- ed his revolver shot would start un Un- rest resL The confession quoted as admitting he received rubles about 2500 from an unnamed foreign foreign for lor eign consul at Leningrad for lor support of activities Many witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses testified he often otten said he lie believed believed be be- the present soviet officials would be stripped of their power through foreign assistance Gregory S. S and Leo Kameneff Kameneff Ka Ka- mencH once high in party councils are under arrest in connection with the plot but were not sent to trial They face lace expulsion Expected Moscow Uprising The confession attributed to Nico Nico- said when he shot Kiroff at Leningrad he believed another section sec see tion o of the gang would immediately attempt to kill Stalin and other leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers in m Moscow An exile under the czarist government government government govern govern- ment he risked his life to overthrow Leon today is iJ an exile in France from the Soviet Russia he labored to establish In 1916 he was an outcast revolutionary revolt revolt- struggling for existence in New York where he had fled led after years ears of ot wandering through Europe and Asia after escaping from Siberian exile Two years ears later he stood side by side with Nikolai Lenin in the crusade crusade cru cru- sade to socialize the newly emancipated emancipated Russian republic As foreign minister it was who ho signed the treaty of ot Brest which eliminated Russia from the World war and later as commissar forwar for lor forwar war he developed the czars czar's demoralized demoralized demor demor- fighting machine into a formidable formidable for lor red army of men inca Tower rower Wanes Vanes While Lenin lived stood In the front rank of ot the soviet regime His decline after seven years of or ascendancy coincided with the start of Lenins Lenin's fatal illness His expectations that he would become become be be- come successor to Lenin received their first rebuff rebut when the all all- Russian congress ignored him to appoint appoint ap ap- ap point a triumvirate to rule during the premiers premier's illness The triumvirate was composed of Gregory Leo Kameneff and the man who eventually was to occupy the niche had coveted cov coy Joseph eted-Joseph eted Joseph Stalin With Lenins Lenin's death Stalin consolidated consolidated consoli consoli- dated his power discarding and Kameneff in the process These latter two only last week were reported reported re reo re- re ported to have been arrested and remanded remanded re- re for fo trial because of activities hostile to the Stalin regime Rift Grows Wider The rift between Stalin and widened as the they clashed over economic policy An exponent of immediate and relentless ss socialization tion opposed the concessions the right wing of the communist party part led by Stalin was willing to tomake tomake tomake make to capitalism to maintain its power His opposition led by successive steps to his expulsion from the communist communist com corn party his removal from office of or fice fire and his banishment to Siberia late in 1927 His family was as scattered his close associates imprisoned or executed and he himself fell prey to a complication complication cation of illnesses A year ear after his banishment was permitted to leave Soviet Russia to start starl his many years of wandering in exile Nine countries promptly denied him sanctuary and he was compelled to cross and frontiers in search o of refuge After appearing and disappearing in widely separated parts part of the continent continent con con- finally hid himself away in a remote section of France His residence in Barbizon was revealed revealed revealed re re- re- re by a police raid last April France also indicated its intention of expelling at the time time- and accusations were ere made that the exile was attempting to foment communist activity in Paris Pans No country could be found which would take off ore Frances France's hands lands In the end he was permitted to remain heavily guarded both 1 for or his own life lire and Frances France's protection |