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...Russian proletariat has been taught to hate and despise "kings" and "emperors," His Majesty was ambiguously referred to in the press, by order of the Soviet censor, as a "Padisha." Curiously enough, however, the verbal use of "Majesty" was not barred, because research had established that the late Nikolai Lenin, founder of the Soviet State, whose every act and word has become a sanctified example, once addressed to the "Padisha of Afghanistan" a letter which began, "Your Majesty...
...descendant of Daniel Webster returned good for evil, last week, to famed Lev Davidovitch Trotsky. The descendant is Poet Max Eastman, 45, sometimes considered a dilettante radical, onetime editor of the brilliant but now defunct review, The Masses* and author of Since Lenin Died. Of this volume Comrade Trotsky wrote in his potent yesterdays: 'fallacious and mendacious . . . exploits single incidents of the [Communist] party discussion . . . perverts the meaning of facts." Since writing those lines Trotsky has been exiled to the remote vicinity of Chinese Turkestan because he dared to continue "party discussion" in a party which demands blind obedience...
...pedestals of the great are sandstone rather than granite, no one has been more active in lowering the portraits of emperors and potentates so that the public may first gape and then conclude that man is created equal after all, than Dr. Emil Ludwig. Napoleon, Bismarck, William H. Lenin, Washington, Wilson and so forth have all been exhibited on the point of Dr. Ludwig's free-flowing pen, and the world has admired, marveled, and pondered a few historical inaccuracies...
...what had happened was the exile to Siberia and other remote Russian provinces of all the opposition leaders who were recently expelled from the Communist Party and from Parliament (TIME, Dec. 26 and Jan. 16). Chief Oppositionist Lev Davidovich Trotsky, famed "father of the Red Army," chief disciple of Lenin, was reported banished to remote Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea, whence comes caviar...
...seen whether the despotic machine of Stalin can. Kicked out, they yet believe that alone are the chosen vessels in which reposes the spirit of Lenin - in Russia Lenin is, in sober truth, a God. In his name Trotsky will certainly plot and and perhaps conquer. After all "Lenin & Trotsky" is a couplet revered by millions to whom "Lenin & Stalin" rings unfamiliar, hollow strange...