Preliminary Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials correspondence and statement, 1937 March-April.

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Preliminary Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials correspondence and statement, 1937 March-April.

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The collection contains two pieces of correspondence and one statement from Chairman, John Dewey. One letter from the American writer Waldo Frank to John Dewey, dated March 24, 1937, details Mr. Franks inability to remain in Mexico to take part in the Preliminary Commission. The second piece of correspondence is a letter of resignation from journalist Carleton Beals to John Dewey dated April 17, 1937. The last item is a copy of a statement by John Dewey regarding Beals' resignation and is also dated April 17, 1937.

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University of California, Davis, Shields Library

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University of California, Davis, Shields Library

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