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...authority and prestige were supreme. Young, with a penchant for sarcasm, he made many enemies. After Lenin's death, Trotsky's political demise set in. He has held himself up as the disciple and interpreter of Leninism; the men in power have regarded him as an upstart and a renegade. The difference is not merely political; behind all there lies an inscrutable 'tissue of venemous personal hatred. For the nonce, Trotsky is in the discard. Who can say but that the fate of Robespierre and Danton hangs like Damocles' sword over his head...
...background. A sick man, he was indefatiguable in support of an active Bolshevising policy designed to please the younger rank and file of the Communist Party. Old-timers like Josef Stalin and Gregory Zinoviev, remembering that Trotzky joined the party only in 1917, began to attack him as a "upstart," and after Lenin's death it was not long before he was ousted from the Commissariat of War and reduced to political impotence by his powerful enemies. Even the Communist Party disavowed him, and, not actually expelling him from the Party, demoted him from the high office he held...
...that since his direct ancestors numbered millions 30 generations ago, therefore he was descended from the entire English-speaking race. Running up his family tree eight branches he would drop down two and land on Benjamin Franklin, "the bourgeois." The Nile, he would say, is an upstart compared to the Mississippi. Five-toed little Eohippus lived for him in his farm horse, Daisy...
...switchboard through which his mind can plug in quickly to any period in U. S. history. His family has dealt with Latin-American countries before. His grandfather once brought peace to four of them. If Hamilton Fish Jr. predicts conquest of Mexico, it is not the boasting of an upstart though it may be the patriotic arrogance of a man in whose sight 100 years are but as a session of Congress...
...alumni of Mussolini's college. There would be opportunity for another black shirtail genius to arise and seize the reins of state. Wise is Mussolini wise and blessed with foresight. Having an available position he does not intend to lose it through the ambitions and personality of some upstart. But other men have tried to place walls around the throne and they have failed. Now has tried it perhaps in exactly the method of H Duce. Why he should be more successful than his predecessors in the tyranny trade is a problem for prophets. So far his defeats have been...