7 0 8 D O C . 5 0 3 A P P E A L F O R T R O T S K Y Published in Die Menschenrechte 4, no. 4/5 (20 April 1929): 16. [1] Leon Trotsky. On his request to be permitted to enter Germany, see Doc. 443, note 2. [2] On Trotsky’s expulsion from the Soviet Union, see Doc. 443, note 2. [3] Trotsky visited New York in early 1917. In March 1917, he was arrested in Halifax by the British and then deported from Canada. Trotsky had been exiled to Siberia in the summer of 1900 until his escape from czarist Russia in August 1902 (see Service 2009, pp. 58, 68, 153–160). There are no indi- cations that he was ever expelled from the United States, United Kingdom, or Germany. [4] On his exile in Alma-Ata and the poor state of his health, see Doc. 443, note 2.