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...week they prepared to follow every detail of the Roiderer case, which had become rather public because the U. S. Embassy insisted upon knowing something about what was happening to the accused U. S. citizen. As a special favor German Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick authorized U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist to be present at the trial in Berlin...
Rigidly barred from the Soviet Union last week was a brief blast from Great Exile Leon Trotsky, scholarly elaborator of the Doctrine of Permanent Revolution and No. 1 enemy of Stalin. At the Kirov trials, the State has charged that an unnamed "foreign consul" in Leningrad gave Assassin Nikolaev money and asked him for "a letter to Trotsky...
Asked Trotsky: "Did the consul obtain this letter? ... It is precisely on this score that we cannot gather a single word. . . . Is it conceivable that neither the examining magistrate nor the prosecutor became at all interested? . . Was the letter written and transmitted? Was a reply received? To these unavoidable questions we get no answer. The Gay-pay-oo could not permit the prosecutor any indiscretion within that sphere over which it has been compelled to draw a curtain of silence...
...anyone familiar with Soviet trials the document offered as Assassin Nicolaev's confession bore earmarks of labored composition by the Gay-pay-oo. It confessed that an unspecified foreign consul† gave Nicolaev 5,000 rubles and offered to put him in touch with Great Red Exile Leon Trotsky. "From Capitalistic darkness," editorialized the official newsorgan Pravda, "comes the stench which Kirov's murderers breathed!" According to Pravda, the leaders of the Trotsky faction accused in the case are "prostituted scoundrels, arrant blackguards, cowards, traitors, bankrupt politicians, deserters, outcasts of the human race and thrice accursed...
...Author. Second of five children with a mixed heritage of diplomacy and Presbyterianism, Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wis. (1897), went to China at nine when his father was appointed U. S. Consul-General at Hong Kong, attended school there eight years. Back in the U. S. he finished his formal education at Thacher School, Oberlin College, the Coast Artillery Corps, Yale, where he got his A. B. in 1920. Even as a Yale undergraduate he gave promise of being one of the prize blossoms of the current "literary renaissance," attracted the favorable attention of William Lyon Phelps...