Notes

War Lord Leon Trotzky was reported to be writing a new book, My Mistakes, which is expected to reheat* the ire of the Bolshevik triumvirate--Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin.

A trial in which the accused were convicted prisoners, the witnesses convicted prisoners, the spectators convicted prisoners, was held in a prison at Leningrad. The accused, 23 of them, were charged with attempting the murder of a prison mate whom they declared was an agent of the dread Cheka, or revolutionary tribunal.

To Moscow went Leonid Krassin, Bolshevik Ambassador to France; Nikolai Krestinsky, Bolshevik Ambassador to Germany; Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Charge d'Affaires in Britain. In the capital they are to sit in solemn conclave with the chiefs of the Communist Party. It was rumored that they would decide to recognize the debts to foreign countries contracted by the Tsarist regime.

Alexander Kerensky, head of the Provisional Government that ruled Russia immediately before the Bolshevik coup in 1917, declared in Berlin, where he lives in exile, that Russia is in the grip of that apocalyptic horseman, Famine. Said he: "It is not to be wondered at that, in a Province where the harvest is officially recognized as insufficient, peasants are pillaging trains loaded with wheat and eat a mixture of the bark of trees and horse refuse. Famine, unpitying and inexorable, is drawing ever nearer in the country districts of Russia. This time an American relief association will not come. The Bolshevist policy has closed the door to it. They will know this in the Russian countryside."

* In his world-famous "1917," Author Trotzky declared that Kamenev, Zinoviev & Co. were decidedly bad Bolsheviks in 1917 and intimated that they are little better now.