Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Exile a mischief El Hidalgo stopped some miles outside the capital and Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky, with six Mexican detectives permanently assigned to them, alighted to finish their journey by motor car.* This whisked them to the spacious suburban residence of fat and smoldering Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, an ardent Trotskyist, friend of President Cardenas, and casher-in on the John D. Rockefellers (Father & Son) who in art "know what they like...
...Tremendous was the hullabaloo raised meanwhile by the Mexican Communist Party which is avowedly Stalinist. Its General Secretary,† blatant Comrade Hernan Laborde, massed his Reds in Mexico City's St. Domingo Square and roared: "Down with Trotsky who is living in the home of the Capitalist Painter Rivera! . . . We demand the expulsion of Trotsky from Mexico. . . . Trotsky, the rotten bourgeois-stalking horse, has already broken his promise to refrain from politics in Mexico and has insulted the Soviet Government...
...land of proletarian reform. As England's great, liberal Manchester Guardian observed in a gentlemanly salute to Trotsky last week, "Let us hope he will find a sure refuge in Mexico-a revolutionary country where a great revolutionary may be appreciated and understood." At latest reports, Host Diego Rivera had had to return to a hospital with a kidney ailment; Mrs. Trotsky had gone to bed with what seemed to be a recurrence of her malaria; Guest Trotsky, respectfully watched and waited on by dark-eyed young Hostess Rivera, had resumed dictation to his secretaries of his monumental Biography...
...Mexico, meanwhile, Muralist Diego Rivera, staunch Defender of Trotsky, announced that should the Great Exile not be assassinated before or upon landing in Mexico-and this Comrade Rivera considered more than likely-Trotsky could take refuge in the Rivera home. Already, according to the muralist, four armed men have kidnapped the caretaker of his studio, beating him severely and pitching him out of their automobile "for refusing to talk...
...Barabas neighbors were responsible for most of this. There was Liiv, a Lithuanian professor who had been a socialist dictator of food supplies in a brief post-War revolution and whose friend was now Bardichinov, who had been a banker in Russia. When Primo de Rivera is in power in Spain they are joined by a gentle anarchist named Alvarez; when Rivera falls, Alvarez disappears, replaced by the courtly Spanish Prince Maura. When Mussolini takes power in Italy a cultivated minister of finance appears with his beautiful daughter. At first the refugees plot and conspire, then gradually make friends until...