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With the Soviet leaders now openly pledged to retwist Stalin's twisted chronicles of the Bolsheviks (TIME, March 5), Natalia Sedova Trotsky, widow of assassinated (in 1940) Old Bolshevik Leon Trotsky, crept out of limbo in a Mexico City suburb to announce that she has sent two messages to the Kremlin. Her goading requests: 1) Whatever happened to her engineer son Sergei, last heard from in Moscow some 20 years ago? 2) When will the Soviets honestly rewrite the history of denounced "Traitor" Leon Trotsky and of his "deviationist" son Leon Jr., who died mysteriously after an operation...
...tedium through the middle of the play can be blamed on the author's excessive repetitiveness. John Fenn, as the psychosomatically ill suitor, was amusing, although he sometimes twitched about more embarrassingly than humorously. Dick Merlo heartily fulfilled the part of the father, but Laura Pincus, as Natalia, contributed little more than her presence on the stage. Nevertheless, Marriage Proposal was moderately successful as a brief entertainment...
Last week Natalia Trotsky issued a bitter condemnation: the Socialist Workers Party, she said, had broken faith with the prophet. Wrote she to the party paper, the Militant of New York City: her husband would not have approved "supporting the armies of Stalinism in the war which is being endured by the anguished Korean people. I cannot and will not follow you in this...
...dirty word among orthodox Communists, but small bands of followers in many countries, grandly calling themselves the "Fourth International," remained faithful to Trotsky, claiming that he alone had preached the old Marxian gospel. One of the largest of the Trotskyite groups: the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. Natalia appointed herself guardian of the true word and, like a medium, held forth on what Trotsky would say on various issues were he alive...
...Mexico City suburb where she lives in a high-walled, green-gated house, Natalia Trotsky was silent...