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...these rapturous radicals last week gentle, refined, soft-spoken Lev Davidovich Bronstein said, in the fatherly fashion of an old maestro soothing impatient pupils who want to play the violin before they know how, that he wants to go to New York...
...Davidovich Bronstein, middleaged, nearsighted, hooknosed, big-lipped, spectacled, with a shock of greying hair, is an exile on the island of Prinkipo in the Sea of Marmosa. Once, as Leon Trotsky, he was second most powerful Russian. Lenin's right-hand man. In My Life he gives the story of his rise, decline, fall...
Exile Leo Davidovich Bronstem thinks the part he has played in Russia's affairs an honest, able, ill-requited one; thinks the rest of Russia is now out of step. But he is philosophical, quotes Revolutionist Pierre Joseph Proudhon's (1809-65) words from prison: "Destiny-I laugh at it; and as for men, they are too ignorant, too enslaved for me to feel annoyed at them...
...night was Jan. 14, 1917. The husband and wife were Mr. & Mrs. Lev Davidovich Trotsky. Exiles from Tsardom, they had crossed on the little Spanish steamer Montserrat to live with relatives in The Bronx, were anxious to get to bed. To The Bronx their friend Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin took them, after showing off his precious Library. It was his gold mine, the dingy Golconda from which he was digging material for tome after ponderous tome, his monumental works on Capitalism and Communism...
Describing his recent ejection from Russia, Leon Trotsky (real name Lev Davidovich Bronstein) declared that agents of Dictator Stalin appeared suddenly at Trotsky's place of exile, Almaata, on the borders of Russian Turkestan, and informed him that he, his son and Mme. Trotsky must pack up their possessions and prepare to leave Russia. Soon all were bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them...