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...Constantinople. This high office, spiritual headship of some 120 million souls throughout the world, is held by the ascetic, bearded, polylingual Greek Priest Demetrios Maniatis who was elected by a majority of his brother metropolitans and invested as Photios II three autumns ago (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929). Born on Prinkipo Island near Constantinople (where now is exiled Red Leon Trotsky), Photios II was educated in Athens and Germany. He was consecrated as bishop in 1914, becoming Metropolitan of Philadelphia (Asia Minor) ten years later, then Metropolitan of Derkos...
...have been published April i and obviously he would not have quit work on it unless he was thoroughly incapacitated," said Mr. Trotzky's representative in Berlin. Few days later, despatches from Istanbul told that sick Leon Trotzky & wife were awakened 'by fire in their home on Prinkipo Island, near Istanbul, and narrowly escaped in their nightclothes. The home burned to the ground, with it all Trotzky's books and papers (including copies of. all the official documents which passed through his hands as a Red chieftain), but not the manuscript of the history, which he snatched...
...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...
...Trotsky lived on, and Trotskyism (doctrine of "permanent revolution") grew more & more out of fashion. In January 1928, Trotsky and his followers, hopelessly in the minority, were ordered into exile in Central Asia. From there a year later Trotsky was deported into Turkey. Now he lives on Prinkipo, "a planet without a visa...
Additional factors are that Thaw is worth about $5,000,000; Evelyn Nesbit owns the Café El Prinkipo on the boardwalk of Atlantic City and is moderately wealthy...