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Show SOVIET GOUNCIL BAHSTROTZKY EXPULSION FROM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THREATENED FOR DISOBEDIENCE Accused Leader Vigorously Denies Desire to Revise Policies Of Leniine; Russian Policies Changing Moscow. Leon Trotsky will not be permitted to remain on the soviet -war council and is warned that a continuance con-tinuance of disobedience will culmin- ate in his being expelled from the political po-litical bureau and the soviet executive execu-tive committee. These facts became known in a semiofficial communication issued here. The communication said that at a plenary meeting of the executive committee and control commission of the Communist party, held on Friday, Fri-day, it was decided, almost unanimously, unani-mously, first, to invite Trotsky to submit effectively to party discipline; second, that his retention on the war council must be regarded as impossible; impossi-ble; and, third, that the question of the further employment of Trotsky on the executive committee be postponed until the next party congress, with a warning that his continued disobedience disobed-ience would entail his removal from the political bureau and the executive committee. , According to the communication. Trotsky wrote to the committee regretting re-gretting his inability, owing to his illness, ill-ness, to attend its session, and declaring declar-ing that he had kept silence in order to spare the Communist party. He vigorously denied he favored revising Leninism or that he belittled the role of Leninos Trotsky added that he hismelf regarded re-garded "Trotskyism" as ended politically politi-cally and said he had not forseen that his book on the revolution would be made use of on the political platform. plat-form. Regarding the accusations against him of lack of discipline, Trot-zky Trot-zky wrote: "I reply emphatically that I am ready for any task, in any post or outside any post and under any control con-trol imposed by my party. It is useless use-less sto emphasize that, after -recent discussions, our cause necessitates that I should be relieved of my post of president of the revolutionary war :ouncil. x The resolution adopted by the commission com-mission declares that Trotzky's anti-Lenist anti-Lenist views regarding the peasants censtituted a special danger to the Communist party as his attitude had andermined the confidence of the peasants pea-sants in the soviet policy. Further, the resolution observes that Trotzky's letter, while agreeing to perform any task assigne to him, fails to admit his errors and maintains his anti-bolshevik attitude, thus making his submission submis-sion a pure formality. |