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...received by the outside world, and that the political dispute of which Trotsky is the center, was "so hot as to mislead some of the Communists themselves." Léon Trotsky, son of a Jewish farmer of the Ukraine, is 44 years of age. At nine he went to Odessa and studied at St. Paul's High School, where, says he: "I displayed great diligence in my studies and always was first in my class." He does not appear to have sponsored Marxism for any personal grievance and was, according to himself, slow to embrace...
...Then the American attaché at Berlin reports: The German government has bought 1,400,000 bushels of wheat from Russia. It is about to be shipped from Black Sea ports. Further reports indicate that thousands of tons of grain are being exported over the Finnish border and from Odessa and Novorossysk on the Black Sea. There can be but one conclusion-that the Soviet government prefers exporting grain to feeding its starving peasants...
Abraham Jacob Krachmalnikoff '16, of Odessa, Russia, is said to have left for his native country to enter the Czar's army, but this report could not be verified at a late hour last night. Although a resident in America, Krachmalnikoff is a native Russian. He was requested by the authorities of his country to return for military service...
...Cosmopolitan Club has elected the following officers for next year: President, Jacobus Christiaan Bosman '15, of Pretoria, South Africa; first vice-president, Pedro Campos uC., of Ponce, Porto Rico; second vice-president, Tse-Vung Soong uC., of Shanghai, China; secretary, Abraham Jacob Krachmalnikoff '16, of Odessa, Russia; treasurer, Johannes Samuel van Heerden '15, of Middeburg, Transvaal, South Africa; councilors, Professor Masaharn Anesaki, Mr. Reinhold Friedrich Alfred Hoernie, and James Campbell Manry...
...level of serfs of the Czar, with only a smattering of learning to separate us from the toiling mass, is detested and secretly defied? This is the reason why the Universities are such excellent field for the socialist propaganda; why St. Petersburg and Moscow and Kiev and Odessa and other institutions are furnishing young men to the cause in a never failing supply. It is a fight for free discussion and free thought, as well as for constitutional liberties. The "Nihilist" today is not necessarily an anarchist or a denier of everything, as I am told you consider...