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Show . .- I II I 1 1 I 1 1 1 II II I H Socialist History From 64 to 1920 Told ' ALBANY, N. Y.f Jan. 30. The as- IH sembly chamber in which the five So- cialist assemblymen aro being tried for alleged disloyalty today became a schoolroom for the teaching of Social- 'H Seated In a serai-circle around Sey. mour Stedman, defense counsel nnd Algernon Lee of the Socialist stato committee, a witness, tho assembly ju-diciary ju-diciary committee heard read into th record what may be described as "a general history of Socialism from 1S61 fl to In quizzing his "pupil" Mr. Stedman drew from Mr. Lee differentatlons bc f tween Socialistic and anarchistic doc-trines; doc-trines; names of leaders in both move-ments, move-ments, and a history of the develop-ment develop-ment of Socialism in Europe, with spe-cial spe-cial reference to Russia. Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier, a f committee member, asked if it were I not true that German money had ' been paid Lcnine and Trotzky to over- I throw the Kerensky government. When Mr. Lee replied in the negative Mr. Cuvillier contradicted him saying iH he "had it on the authority of the state department." jH |