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Show SOVIET COUNCIL B A RST H OTZKY EXPULSION FROM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THREATENED FOR DISOBEDIENCE Accused Leader Vigorously Denies Desire to Revise Policies Of Lenifne; 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 culminate 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 hi3 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 Leni no-Trotsky no-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 use-les use-les sto emphasize that, after recent discussions, our cause necessitates that I should be relieved of my post of president of the revolutionary war council. The resolution adopted by the commission com-mission declares that Trotzky's anti-Lenist anti-Lenist views regarding the peasants constituted a special danger to the Communist party as his attitude had undermined 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. |