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...Lubinsky's real name is Lev Davidovitch Bronstein. He is far better known as Leon Trotsky, a name he is variously said to have borrowed from either a Kosher restaurant keeper in New York or his first jailer. Many times during his residence on Prinkipo the exiled Soviet leader has begged permission to travel. Nervous capitalist governments have always refused. Last week with...
...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...
...Picturesque "Uncle Ljuba" Davidovitch withdraws the support of his Democratic-Mussulman bloc from the Cabinet of Premier Velja Vukitchevitch, which resigns...
...King Alexander offers the Premiership to "Uncle Ljuba" Davidovitch, but by this time the Opposition parties are so disorganized by M. Raditch's failure that canny Peasant Davidovitch refuses even to try to form a cabinet...
...Davidovitch Trotsky and the 99 other prominent Opposition leaders who were recently expelled from the Communist Party (TIME, Dec. 26) were further expelled, last week, from the Union Central Executive Committee or acting legislature of the Soviet Union. Expulsion was voted unanimously by the 21 members of the potent Presidium or Standing Committee, which held that: "Persons expelled from the Communist Party are not fit to be members of the legislature." A similar act in the U. S. would be for the Republican Party (having suppressed all other parties) to expell from Congress even the "Insurgent Republicans...