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...strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever he went, from Turkestan to Mexico. His son and most of his kin had mysteriously died during the years of his exile. Only three months ago he had barely escaped assassination (TIME, June 3). Mexico City was full of men & women whom he knew to be Stalinist agents. Nevertheless his life, at the moment, was peaceful...
...hand. There were also mistakes to remember, particularly the mistake of failing to return to Moscow for Lenin's funeral, a failure which under mined his popularity with the people, made him vulnerable to Stalin's intrigue. There followed expulsion from the Polit buro, exile to Turkestan, to Turkey, to France, to Norway, finally to Mexico, where last week fate caught up with...
...fields of Emba in the Kazak Republic, which in 1916 were supposed to be exhausted, new deposits have been tapped, production is growing rapidly and a long pipe line from the centre of the fields to the Caspian is nearing completion. In Turkestan still richer fields are being exploited...
...recently prospected, are now yielding 5,500,000 tons a year, and the once Godforsaken hamlet of Karaganda has become a modern city. So has Kounrad, where the mining of extensive copper deposits around Lake Balkhash has begun. Sulfur plants have sprung up in the hills of Darvaz in Turkestan...
...Wandering Lake. In 1933 Sweden's famed Explorer Sven Hedin was hired by the Chinese Government to explore the Silk Road, ancient caravan route of Marco Polo fame. Purpose: to build a motor highway connecting Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) with Soviet Russia. (Completed in 1938, this 2,000-mile highway soon became one of China's two last links with the outside world.) The Wandering Lake is Sven Hedin's third book to result from that 1933-35 expedition (others: The Flight of the Big Horse, The Silk Road...