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While rumors of peasant revolts were gurgitating in the Russian provinces, Leon Trotzky, brother-in-law of the late Lenin and Supreme War Lord of the Red Army, was being hauled over the coals by certain of his brother "Bolshecrats...
...misstating the facts of the history of the Party and giving an untrue version of events ... to pervert Bolshevist ideals, deluding the Party, the Communist Internationale and the whole country regarding the real relations of Lenin to the Party during the period of the Revolution...
Trotzky is a general without an arm. Communists have denounced him as a perverter of Bolshevik ideals and a spreader of untruth concerning. "Saint" Lenin. His party suspects him of having designs to usurp the dead leader's place, and change the name of Leningrad to "Trotzkgrad". He is feared especially because the five consonants coming together in the name "Trotzkgrad" make a strong appeal to every true Russian heart...
Since the controversies in the party following lenin's death. Trotzky has taken no active part in public affairs. On the contrary he has allowed the Muses to inspire him to two literary works, "1917" and "The Lesson of the October Revolution", and these have occasioned the attacks by his former associates...
...hour of the reception arrived. At the top of the famous staircase where the Tsar's Ambassadors used to receive the élite, stood M. and Mme. Rakovsky in front of a bust of Lenin. The first to arrive was H. G. Wells, followed by G. B. Shaw, Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Oswald Mosley, radical son-in-law of Marquis Curzon...