Fr iday, January 17, 1964—THE DETRO IT JEWISH NE WS- 16 Trotsky's Prophetic View of an Emerging Nazism, His Change of Heart on 'Territorial Need to Save Jews, Told by Isaac Deutscher Isaac Deutscher is one of the acknowledged authorities o n Communism, Soviet Russia and the leaders of the Russian revo- lutionary movement. His bio- graphy of Stalin is the leading work on this subject. He is with- out doubt the best informed man on the Lenin -Trotsky era and his trilogy on Leon Trotsky, which began with "The Prophet' Armed" a n "The Prophet Unarmed,' now concluded with "The Prophet 0 u t- cast," just pub- lished by Ox- f or d Univer- Trotsky sity Press (417 Fifth Ave., NY16), is among the most signi- ficant historical works on the most trying events of our time. Deutscher is one of the few who survived the Stalin purges to be able to tell the tales relating to the terrorism that was creat- ed by the Russian dictator. Him- self a former Polish Communist, Deutscher knows the entire background of the Communist history relating to Trotsky. In the third volume of the trilogy —dealing with the years 1929- 1940 —Deutscher describes the threatening period in the life of the man who, more than anyone else, was responsible for the Bolshevik successes; who lived in terror in Prinkiho, Mexico, ending in his assassination there on Aug. 21, 1940. Trotsky foresaw events in / 404/4/a014 14 Acres I Resort Pleasure Features on Premises and Free to Guests * * 1,000 Feet of Bathing Beach Indoor Pool with Sun Lamps * Cabana Club, magnificent olympic pool * Bowling Lanes * Billiard Room * Tennis * Golf * Spa and Gym * Club Gigi * Complimentary entertainment * American / European Plan. WO 2-4245 {..? European Plan * American Plan • Spa Plan Germany. He warned against the emerging dictatorship and the dangers that were on the horizon from Nazism. It is possible, as indicated in the Deutscher biography, that if the admonitions of Trotsky had been heeded the trage- dies of the Hitler era might have been averted. Deutscher states that "Trot- sky's attempt to arouse the work- ing class of Germany to the danger that threatened it was his greatest political deed_ in exile." He declares: "Like no one else, and much earlier than anyone, he grasped the destruc- tive delirium with which Na- tional Socialism was to burst upon the world." He adds, in his analysis of Trotsky's view of the impending danger from Germany: "His commentaries on the German situation, written be- tween 1930 and 1933, the years before Hitler's assump- tion of power, stand out as a cool, clinical analysis and fore- cast of this stupendous pheno- menon of social psychopathol- ogy and of its consequences to the international labor move- ment, to the Soviet Union and to the world. What underlines even further the political in- sanity of the tunes if of what utter unconcern about the future and venomous hostili- ty the men responsible for the fate of German communism and socialism reacted to the alarm which Trotsky sounded, from his Prinkipo retreat, in these decisive three years. An historical narrative can hardly convey the full blast of slan- der and derision with which he was met. He represented in effect the self-preservation of the labor movement against the movement itself, which was as if bent on self-des- truction. He had to watch the capitulation of the Third In- ternational before Hitler as a father watches the suicide of a prodigal and absent-minded child, with fear, shame and an- ger—he could not forget that he had been a founding father of the International." A significant factor in the third volume of Deutscher's bio- graphical trilogy of Trotsky is the description of 'the counter- trial of Trotsky that was con- ducted under the chairmanship of Prof. John Dewey, in Mexico, by the Joint 'Commission of In- quiry. The verdict was: "On the basis of all evidence . . . we find that the (Moscow) trials of August 1936 and January 1937 were frame-ups . . . we find Leon Trotsky and Leon Sedov not guilty." Trotsky "received this verdict with joy" although "its effect was small, if not negligible. Dewey's voice commanded some attention in the United States; but it was ignored in Europe, where opinion was preoccupied with the critical events of the year, the last year before Mun- ich, and with the vicissitudes of the French Popular Front and the Spanish Civil War." There is considerable signifi- cance also in Deutscher's refer- NEFL THINGS HAPPEN AT t1 ALA , E111ER-I in A111 . 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The editor of one such paper wrote: 'This is the first time that we of the Jewish press have heard such an accusa- tion. We have been accustomed to look to the Soviet Union as to our only consolation, so far as anti-Semitism is concerned .. It is unforgivable that Trotsky should raise such groundless charges against Stalin." How times have changed, now that the facts are known — now that is has been established that Stalin was the master mind of Soviet anti-Semitism! In a foot- note, quoting from the Trotsky Archives at Harvard University, Deutscher states in explanation of the above quotation in de- fense of Stalin, credits the fol- lowing: 'B. Z. Goldberg in the New York Tag of 26 and 27 Janu- ary 1937. At this itme Trotsky re-formulated his views on the Jewish problem. In an inter- view with the Forwaerts, an- other American-Jewish daily, he admitted that recent ex- perience with anti-Semitism in the Third Reich and even in the U.S.S.R. had caused him to give up his old hope for the 'assimilation' of the Jews with the nations among whom they lived. He had arrived at the view that even under socialism the Jewish question solution,' i.e. that the Jews would need to be settled Jews would need to be settled in their own homeland. He did not believe, however, that this would be in Palestine, that Zionism would be able to solve the problem, or that it could be solved under capitalism. The longer the decaying bour- geois society survives, he argued, the more vicious and barbarous will anti-Semitism grow all over the world." Deutscher believes there will be "Victory in Defeat," as his postscript asserts: "Trotsky sometimes compared mankind's progress to the bare- footed march of pilgrims who advance 'towards their shrine by moving only a few steps forward at a time, and then retreat or jump sideways in order to ad- vance and deviate or retreat again; zigzagging thus all the time they approach laboriously their destination. He saw his role in prompting the 'pilgrims' to advance. Mankind, however, when after some progress it succumbs to a stampede, allows those who urge it forward to be abused, vilified and tram- pled to death. Only when it has resumed the forward move- ment, does it play rueful tribute to the victims, cherish their memory and piously collect their relics; 'then it is grateful to them for every drop of blood they gave—for it knows that with their blood they nourished the seed of the future." This is, in a sense, a reaf- firmation of the fact that without Trotsky's genius — military and political, Communist-wise—there might not have arisen a United Socialist Soviet Republic. Anti- Semitismplayed a role in the abuse of Trotsky, the man who, himself, in his heyday, failed to affirm an interest in Jewish life and in freeing the Jewish masses from the intolerable con- ditions which predominate today also in the U.S.S.R. The Deut- scher biography helps to re- instate the glory that was Leon Trotsky's. —P.S• The average American house- wife washes 24,825 dishes a year. Zionist Leader Criticiz es Arab Appeasement NEW YORK—The national ex- ecutive council of the Zionist Organizations of America, which met last weekend, heard ad- dresses on the latest develop- ments in the Middle East and in World Jewry. Dr. Max Nussbaum, president of the ZOA, who was slated as the principal speaker at the meeting, was unable to attend due to illness. In a telegraphed statement read by the chairman, he urged that a special convo- cation be summoned in Washing- ton by the Conference of Presi- dents of Major American Jewish Organizations to deal with the two burning issues — that of the situation of Soviet Jewry and the problems of Israel in context of the Middle East situation and Washington policy. Jacques Torczyner, chairman of the Council, who presided, in a comprehensive review of the current developments and issues affecting Israel highly praised President Lyndon B. Johnson "who is continuing the policies of the late President." At the same time, he voiced concern over the actions of "cer- tain powerful forces in Washing- ton and particularly in the State Department who try to flaunt the will and meaning of the President's intentions." He charged that these actions "have led the Arabs to misinterpret U.S. policy as one of neutrality between aggression and defense as well as one of indifference to their boycott measures against American firms engaged in trade with Israel. Such a misinterpre- tation stems from the lack of an active initiative on the part of the American authorities con- cerned with the Middle East in attaining an Arab-Israel peace and in openly warning President Nasser and other Arab rulers against any aggression against Israel." Mr. Torczyner cited as "a striking example of actual ap- peasement of Arab intransigence and of surrender to Arab threats by our representatives in the UN, the American sponsored resolution which was adopted by the General Assembly of the UN last Dec. 3, calling only for `repatriation' of the Arab refu- gees to Israel." 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