Conclusions of The Inquiry
Following months of investigation, the Dewey Commission made its findings public in New York on September 21, 1937. The commission purported to clear Trotsky of all charges made during the Moscow Trials and, moreover, exposed the scale of the alleged frame-up of all other defendants during these trials.
Among its conclusions, it stated that "the conduct of the Moscow trials was such as to convince any unprejudiced person that no effort was made to ascertain the truth.
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