Leon Trotsky: Telegram to Johan Nygaardsvold

June 12, 1935

[Writing of Leon Trotsky, Vol. 14, New York 1979, p. 585, title: “Three Telegrams to Norway”]

[To Minister of State Johan Nygaardsvold]

Trusting in the promises of the Norwegian party leaders, I have given up my lodgings and obtained my Belgian transit visa. The French government believes that I deceived it and demands that I leave France within twenty-four hours. I am ill and my wife is ill. Situation is desperate. I solicit immediate favorable decision.