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...after his expulsion from the Communist Party by Joseph Stalin-the world's No. 1 political D.P. From the safety of democratic countries (Norway, France, Mexico) which he longed to communize, this ubiquitous, political ghost had haunted Stalin for twelve years with loud and highly articulate shouts of: "Traitor to the Revolution...
...Trotsky's version, Stalin emerges as a man of inspired mediocrity, perfidy and political depravity. Trotsky's most sensational (and newest) charge: Stalin probably hastened the dying Lenin's death by administering poison. More routine charges: Stalin is a traitor to the revolution and to Communism because 1) he seized control of the Bolshevik Party machine and substituted ward politics for the inspired dynamics of proletarian revolution; 2) he turned the dictatorship of the proletariat into a totalitarian state; 3) he declared himself Lenin's heir and best disciple though Lenin, before his death, had broken...
...hours to try him and a week to find him guilty. In the century-old mansion that houses the Kiangsu High Court at Soochow, Columbia-educated Chen Kung-po, last president of the late Wang Ching-wei's Nanking puppet regime, heard the judgment of his people: traitor, death...
Chen's sentence capped a career at ironic variance with the literal translation of his name: "Exhibit Public Greatness." In the days when he was an honest man, Chen had never been more than a high-ranking functionary. Now he qualified as the great traitor only because Wang Ching-wei was dead and the Russians held Puppet Emperor Henry Pu-yi of Manchukuo...
Ezra Pound got into a Random House poetry anthology that had excluded him as a traitor, but Publisher Bennett Cerf took pains to be understood. He had finally decided, said Cerf in his Saturday Review of Literature column, to reinstate the poet, chiefly because: "Once begun, where can you draw the line in this sort of thing? . . . This does not mean," Cerf hastened to say, "that my abhorrence for Ezra Pound the man has abated one iota. . . ." To make assurance doubly, sure, Cerf would run a footnote characterizing Pound as "a contemptible betrayer of his country...