KREMLIN PERMITS JOHN REED TO PRAISE TROTSKY ©
The, French- ~ language Soviet weekly Les Nouvelles’ de Moscou car~ ries an article in the November 14 issue in which Trotsky .1s praised, The title of the article is "The Second bay," _and, the’ author is John Reed, —_ ‘The article was. originally written. for. the American. socialist press on the first anniversary of the. October” Revolution... It appears to be a preliminary sketch for the famous book by John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World.- Two young Soviet.historians,. I. . Krasnow and S,-Rakhlina, dug it up and prepared it for. publication in.a-Russian translation: in Tzvestia. from which Les Nouvéliles de. Moscou took it. » “In the article, Reed ‘mentions. Leon. ‘Trotsky in. the . most. favor~ able way, once as a member of..the Presidium’ of the Second: Pan-Russian Congress .of Soviets, and again as a-member of, the. Council. of People! s Commissars. _ , ~ a Do pe
From Reed's report, it can. be. gathered. that. ‘protsky. was. second in popularity only to Lenin. Reed tells how the crowd greeted the announcement of the names of the Council of. People's Commissars in accordance with their. revolutionary merits, He mentions that the... applause received by Trotsky. was loud and inordinate, by Lenin Ninterminable.' a a . a
“This ts the first time in more than thirty-five