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...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...
...last two of these Old Bolsheviks to fall, Kamenev (brother-in-law of Trotsky) and Zinoviev, were executed by a Stalin firing squad after trial proceedings of such a nature (TIME, Aug. 31) that today they are a festering scandal in Communist circles throughout the world. The supreme Trotskyist who, according to the Moscow verdict, was the instigator of Communists who sought to kill Stalin, is significantly alive...
...whatever that Trotsky is an authoritative Communist, Stalin is an even more authoritative Communist, and that -supposing the time ever comes when the Soviet Union is a "success" and has money to spare-Moscow will again shower gold upon Communist parties in other lands, a policy which is so "Trotskyist" today and so sharply distinguished now from what is Stalinist...
...Great Exile on the theory that his talents as a trouble-maker for Capitalism are so great as to render the little he costs a bargain. Exile Trotsky expectorates in print upon Dictator Stalin on all occasions, and Stalin only recently staged in Moscow an amazing trial of alleged "Trotskyist conspirators" against himself (TIME, Aug. 31). Death sentences were passed and swiftly executed upon 16 of the accused, several of whom had long annoyed Stalin by timid carping at his policies, and this trial is still in retrospect so stirring that in Manhattan last week pinks and reds of various...
...back the White Armies of Russian capitalism. Stalin, after maneuvering Trotsky out of office by the tactics of political bossism. still had to break the popularity which made "Trotsky" a name of power. Appointed Commissar of War was Trotsky's bitter foe, Comrade Michael Frunze. He "broke" every Trotskyist officer, but grew too powerful himself. His sudden death Stalin's enemies attribute universally to poison. Stalin's next move was to hand the Army, Navy and Air Force over to a man of whom the Soviet public had never heard, a Red general 13th...