16 MAY 1925, Page 2

It is strange news from Russia that Trotsky, after being

deprived of his offices and sent away from Moscow in disgrace, has been recalled. He had merely advocated an economic policy which Lenin himself would probably have advocated if he had been alive to-day—a continuous expansion of the New Economic Policy which leases large industrial interests to private management. For a time after Lenin's death the Soviet rulers were more Leninite than their master, but the facts seem to have been too strong for them.