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Show FIGHTING LOOMS OVERTROTZKY MEXICO CTTT, Feb. P Fighting threatened today between Leon Trotsky's communist enemies and his university friends as the Russian exile nervously prepared to tell a New York audience hia version ver-sion of tha recent an tls ovist conspiracy con-spiracy trial la Moscow. Mexican students defied communist commu-nist organizations striving to keep Trotsky a prisoner In tha suburban villa of Diego Rivera, his host and benefactor in Mexico. They Intimated they would answer an-swer force with force If communists attempted to prevent the one time Russian war commissar ' from appearing ap-pearing publicly or lecturing at the university. . .. Students Answer Te tha local communist party's warning It would use ''organised force" If necessary to keep Trotsky from speaking la Mexico tha students stu-dents answered: "We have not yet Invited Trotsky to lecture, although wa are considering consid-ering it. If we do, the communists will not be permitted to Interfere." Trotsky, a political refugee here over the protista of many communists, commu-nists, who charged he was a foe of soviet- Russia, went Into seclusion awaiting the hour for hia two telephone tele-phone and loudspeaker addrssses to New York one a 40-mlnute talk in English, the other a 15-minute Russian Rus-sian speech tonight at 10 o'clock (E. a T.. There were no Indications the communists planned to keep Tret-sky Tret-sky from delivering his long distance dis-tance addresses, but It was understood under-stood police guards posted about tha Riveras' blue-walled villa would be reinforced aa a precaution. Attack Planned The contents of his two speeches were nominal secrets, but It Vsj generally known the bitter enemy of Joseph Stalin would lash out sgain at what he has called the "Moscow frameup." Members of his household said he considers the speech hia greatest effort to combat the recent trial and confessions of 17 plotters who named him the arch-conspirator. He has denied repeatedly any connection con-nection with the conspiracy, attributed attrib-uted to his alleged plan to restore capitalism to Russia, or any "Individual "Indi-vidual terrorism." Ha haa volunteered volun-teered to take hia case against Stalin before any international, impartial im-partial board of Inquiry. |