Racialist Trotsky

A VIOLENT Prague Radio attack on a man accused ol Trotskyism openly resurrects the methods of political slander and racialist abuse employed in the Slansky trials.

After these trials in 1952, 11 Czechoslovak government officials charged with "Trotskyism, Titoism and working for foreign intelligence' were hung and three others jailed.

Target of the latest attacks, on Monday and Tuesday of this week, was the journalist Stanislav Budin, who until 1969 was editor of the Union of Journalists' weekly 'Reporter'.

Repeatedly the commentator laid stress on Budin's Jewish origins—'Born Ben Sion Bath', on the fact that he 'left the Soviet Union illegally in 1922 with his parents Shloem and Rachel, and his fiancée Shannah, daughter of Rumanian businessman'.

'US work'

He was accused of working in the USA for "purely Zionist organizations' financed by the 'largest American Jewish capitalists, led by the notorious Bernard Baruch'.

But the political essence of this diatribe was the repeated assertion that Budin is an admirer of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, known throughout the world as Trotsky' and of other "Trotskyist idols' such as Isaac Deutscher.

(Bronstein was Trotsky's original, Jewish, name used by Stalin • to whip up feeling against him in the most backward sections of Soviet society; various writings of Isaac Deutscher, including 372 i Powell on Wednesday.

Speaking during the committee stage of the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, dealing, among other things, with immigration and aliens legislation, Maudling emphasized that the Bill would only have a limited life.

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