Zinoviev

"Trotzky for many years was not a Bolshevist at all; then he became one at intervals and finally relapsed into his original anti-Bolshevism." Thus said Grigori Zinoviev, boss of the Third (Communist) Internationale, ex-War Lord Trotzky's most intractable foe.

He thereupon dismissed the disgraced Trotzky from his duties on the Council of Labor and Defense, thus depriving him of his last Government position.

As a final mark of his disgrace, the Triumvirate (Stalin, Zinoviev, Kamenev) ordered Trotzky's magnificent train-it included a diner, sleeper, library car and Avas fitted with a printing press and a radio set-to be uncoupled and put on the regular railway service. The 150 men employed on the train have been discharged. Sic transit gloria Trotsky!

Catherine Breshkovsky, octogenarian "grandmother of the Russian (Kerensky) Revolution of 1917," spoke to the world from her place of exile, the ancient and venerable city of Prague, CzechoSlovakian capital. She declared that Tsarism "was a little misfortune" to Russia compared with the slough of despondency into which Bolshevism has thrown that unfortunate country.

Said she of the Trotzky-Zinoviev feud:

"For you foreigners, the battle begun between Trotzky and Zinoviev is an episode in the great epic of the greatest revolution humanity has ever known. For us, the contest is nothing more than a frantic race in which each man, Trotzky and Zinoviev, seeks to arrive at the domination of Russia.

"Trotzky is temperamentally a dictator who believes himself destined to rule the world. Zinoviev is a gay liver, a lover of wine, champagne and good cheer. He has suffered a lot and knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian ballet and the beautiful women of Leningrad are flattered to be the friends of Zinoviev. Being very generous, nothing is too precious for his friends. Pearl necklaces, Imperial jewels, famous paintings, Gobelin tapestries are to be found today in the hands of the women who enjoy Zinoviev's friendship."

The Government published official statistics showing that the number of adult members of the Communist Party is 699,679. Zinoviev reflected that there are 132,000,453 people in the Russian Union living on 7,041,120 square miles.