"Sealed Train"

In Constantinople last week, the man who had suffered most from "Steel Man" Stalin was feverishly explaining how his pure Communist conscience permitted him to write articles for the capitalistic press of Europe and the U. S., and to receive tainted capitalistic gold for the same. Exile Leon Trotsky wrote:

"In the Spring of 1917, Lenin, imprisoned in Switzerland, employed a "sealed train" of the Hohenzollerns in order to get to the Russian workers. . . . Imprisoned by the Thermidorians in Constantinople I employed the bourgeois press as a sealed train in order to speak the truth to the whole world. . . .

"The slanderers are raising a great noise on the subject of American dollars. . . . I will therefore tell you about the dollars.

"I gave my articles to an American press agency in Paris. ... It offered me half of the income. I answered that I personally would not take a cent, but that the agency might deliver at my direction half the income from my articles, and that with this money I would publish in the Russian language and in foreign languages a whole series of Lenin's writings."