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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 24, 1940.

The Man that No-one Wanted

is dead

SUN-KIST

and led the split among Russian first years he was almost co-ruler and

revolutionaries and gave the world held power of life and death over

a new word-Bolshevik.

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millions.

But he was away from Moscow,

. sick man. when Lenin died. IN 1905 when an abortive

Those few days were fatal to Trot- revolution was attempted at

sky. When he returned, the obscure) the close of the Russo-Japanese Stalin, hardly known till then in the war, he returned. to Russia, Bolshevik Councils, war in control. was arrested and sent back to Trotiky, his most dangerous rival,

was steadily discredited. Siberin.

Again he escaped to Austria, went War, was given a position of minor He lost his post of Minister for on running radical newspapers and importance. Finally, he broke with

WELR

A war correspondent in the Balkan war of 1913.

When the Great war broke out he went to Switzerland and, efter being expelled, to Paris.

the controlling"group of the Com- munist Party.

To Trotsky, always a revolution- ne. Russin itself mennt Inte. Dreaming still of an international

He wrole a book altacking in rociallen, Rusala was to be merely

BORN Laiba perialism as the cause of the war the military base for the world re- Bronstein, RON and was sentenced to eight months volution.

of a Jewish gnot and expelled from France In

apothecary in 1810.

the Ukraine 60

years

ago, he Wa expelled from school at Odessa for de- nouncing his French teacher as an enemy of mankind. Rusia then was an almost feudal

This he proclaimed, was the true doctrine of Leniff and Morx.

He crossed to Spain, was deported Stalin was more concerned with 10 South

America and Anally Tuin than with world Revolution. reached New York. There again, he There was no meeting point for the began editing a revolutionary paper twd creeds—and Stalm held the for Russian exiles.

power.

But the Czar's unwieldy Empire Back into exile went Trotsky, was cracking and friends collected this time to Vierny on the borders the money to send Trotsky back. of Turkestan and China. Here, 125 LEON TROTSKY IS

n railway, he led a 1ir was arrested by the British, miles from DEAD!

anachronism. All over the sprawl interued at Halifax and allowed to peaceful life with his family and his | ing empire young intellectuals were continue only at the request of the books.

In these two years he wrote Lenin, with whom he plotting--fantastically it seemed 10 Russian provisional Government. books on the revolutions in Russla

and China, carried on a veleninous. created the Soviet from the world for the overthrow of the

With Lenin he began organizing Czarist regime. A few young mad the ruins of the Czar's men against the Czar of all the Ru- Empire, lies in a marbles! mausoleum, venerated almost as a god by the that officially godless Rus- gure on the musle halls sians.

Trotsky died from the last of the many attacks on his life, an exile

from

It was an Incredible, ro amusing the Russian anarchist, with beard and bomb, became a rotile

Young Bronstein-be was just 17. -became leader of a tiny revolu- tionary union in the Ukraine. Inside

the Dalshevik party for the moment correspondence and began when they could overthrow Keren- memoirs.

kky'n

set up in Socialist Republic.

bourgeois Government and There were skirmishings between Trotsky and the Stalin group for Trotsky still commanded much sup- IN those months of 1917 the port is Russia, particularly from the name of Lenin and Trotsky, Red Army and some of the older obscure radicals until then, be- communists. came household words through- out Europe. throughout the world.

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FINALLY. Stalin expelled him from the Russia he had build. Hin borrowed the name was now a bogey-word to

a year he had been arrested, sen-

Lenin, cold, aloof, a superb er- helped the tenced to two years gaol and four

years in Siberta

Caniser, беля unquestionably dominant figure in the Bolshevist

state he helped build, a re- 11 Wha there thai his vaguely revolution. But Trotsky, a brilliant scare bankers' children. Few

fugee from almost every socialistic country in the world.

Marxiam.

Kens chrynlised into

writer and orator, rapidly won a countries would admit him in-

rip on the workmen of Moscow side their borders, and St. Petersburg-it was not yet

In 1902 he csenped from Siberia on Leningrad. 12 in doubtful whether The Turkish island of Prinkipo, He would probably have died a forged passport. Gally, he used Lenin could have succeeded without Czechoslovakia, France, Denmark, in complete obscurity had not the name of his gaoler-Leon Trol- Trotsky,

Norway, all sheltered him for a time the Russian propaganda ma. sky. He reached Austria, the first

and expelled him. chino blazed hatred at him, European country in which he made Bolsheviks seized It unhesitatingly

his home. Iefore he died he

When their moment came the

was and ruthlessly.

As Europe began to set itself for another war at the close of the inirties, worried Norway no longer Trotsky became Commissar for cared to have as a guest a man who ile lived obscurely in Vienna, for the Brest-Litovsk treaty which ter another war and who was the chief Foreign Affairs and helped negotiate had overthrown one great nation in some years editing a socialist paper minated hostilities between Russia enemy of which, was smuggled back into Rus- and Germany.

accused him of every crime, to live in-and be expelled from-

minor every

misdemeanour almost all of them. which happened in the last few years among the 100,000,000 people of Russia,

His last years were almost as bitter as his early years were obscure or his prime remarkable.

slu.

0 man whose actions might largely decide the war.

He became Minister for War There was a small colony of Rus; and set about rebuilding a military lonely figure, sailed for his last re- stan revolutionaries in London and force the Red Army. With Lenin, Trotsky joined these. whom

mei there,

con-

ho After Lenin

was the ducted another revolutionary paper powerful figure in Russia.

hc

HEAT HUMIDITY

AND

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From Norway Leon Trotsky, a

fuge in Mexico where the liberal Cardenas Government gave him

artist Diego For the sanctuary, Wealthy

Rivern placed his home at the dis- ¡posal of the now old revolutionary, Armed guards protected Trotsky from attack.

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From this seeming-security ho again proclaimed that world revo- lution was the real policy of Com. nunkan and that Stalin was be- traying Lenin's ideals. Some of this may have been personal rancour but much of it was probably con- viction on the part of a man who had worked for world revolution, and gone to prison for his convle-. tion since boyhood.

THE man who had ruled the Red Army was left with only his pen. Russians who believed his creed of revolution were ruthlessly purged. At clabor- ate treason trials, leading Rus- sians impeached Trotsky of every crime in the calendar.

Lost May gunmen made an at- tack On Trotsky's life. Twenty assassins, said the cables, poured machine-gun bullets through his window for quarter of an hour, threw in crude incendiary bombs.

But the wily old revolutionary and his wife merely rolled out of bed, kept below the window level and Emothered the bombs in blankets. "

He publicly accused the OGPU of the attempt on his life and again engaged id o wor of words with Stalln.

The man who had survived many attempts at political assassination died at last of the hands of a man he had befriended...

• An ice-pick ended the life of one

of the most remarkable men of the twentieth century.',

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