"TROT ALONGZKY, TROTZKY!"

Trotzky is a general without an arm. Communists have denounced him as a perverter of Bolshevik ideals and a spreader of untruth concerning. "Saint" Lenin. His party suspects him of having designs to usurp the dead leader's place, and change the name of Leningrad to "Trotzkgrad". He is feared especially because the five consonants coming together in the name "Trotzkgrad" make a strong appeal to every true Russian heart.

Since the controversies in the party following lenin's death. Trotzky has taken no active part in public affairs. On the contrary he has allowed the Muses to inspire him to two literary works, "1917" and "The Lesson of the October Revolution", and these have occasioned the attacks by his former associates.

It is, of course, impossible at this time to judge Trotzky's merits in this new role. Perhaps his historical works are propaganda. Still, they may be books of great historical value. If the latter, Trotzky has done a rash thing to brave the patriotic furor of the Russian people with truths they do not want to hear. He might well have remembered the calumny visited upon American historians who dared to hint that the British of the Revolutionary period were not all tyrants and rogues, and that George Washington may not have cut down the cherry tree.