The Real Rulers

One Richard Eaton (a Harvard graduate), described as a newspaper correspondent of The Daily Mail, London, and Le Matin, Paris, in an interview in Manhattan, disclosed the base, black treachery of one War Lord Leon Trotsky.

According to Mr. Eaton, M. Trotsky has fallen in love with brown-haired, lovely Anna Naumouv, 19-year-old daughter of a Moscow storekeeper. Leon became so infatuated wth Anna that he tried recently to turn Russia over, lock, stock and barrel, to Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the late Tsar. All M. Trotsky wanted in exchange was passports vised for every country in Europe, so that he and his adored could flit hither and thither outside of Russia.

Mr. Eaton was imprisoned with "bishops, priests, princes and a drug peddler" in a Bolshevik prison for two months and undoubtedly underwent harrowing experiences. Said he: "I was arrested in Moscow on a charge of being a spy, although I have no idea where the rumor originated. . . I was brought before the most remarkable woman in Russia, Simanova, known as 'The Merciless,' and the real chief of the Foreign Department. She is less than 30 years of age, beautiful, and a blonde with blue eyes. After questioning me she demanded that I confess that I was a spy. I refused and she turned to one of her assistants and said: 'He must be shot.' . . . Again I was taken before Simanova and after expressing regret that she could not have me shot just then, sent me to the Butirik prison on the outskirts of Moscow."

Cleopatra, as all the world knows, got Antony into a lot of trouble. Anna seems to be doing her worst for Leon. Next, the fascinating Simanova may well be expected to blight the happiness of Commissar Tchicherin of the Soviet Foreign office.