Trotsky, Lubinsky & Bronstein

Trotsky, Lubinsky & Bronstein

Not the least of the late Polar Explorer Fridtjof Nansen's services to mankind was his creation, as League of Nations Commissioner for Refugees after the War. of identification passports known as Nansen Certificates for unfortunates unable to get passports from any country. Recently a Nansen Certificate was issued in the name of Mr. & Mrs. Lubinsky, resident since 1929 on the Island of Prinkipo. Turkey.

Mr. Lubinsky's real name is Lev Davidovitch Bronstein. He is far better known as Leon Trotsky, a name he is variously said to have borrowed from either a Kosher restaurant keeper in New York or his first jailer. Many times during his residence on Prinkipo the exiled Soviet leader has begged permission to travel. Nervous capitalist governments have always refused. Last week with his

Nansen Certificate in his pocket, the straggle-chinned little Russian wrapped himself in a thick overcoat, hurried with his wife and bodyguard to Istanbul where they boarded the steamer Praga bound for Marseilles. Objective of the Trotsky trip is Copenhagen, where Mrs. Trotsky is to undergo medical treatment and Comrade Trotsky, still leader of anti-Stalin Communists, is to deliver a lecture at the University. On shipboard Mr. Lubinsky seemed pleased but nervous. For two hours before the ship sailed from Turkey he hid in his cabin. Reporters reported that he carried a pistol. When the Praga called at Athens pro-Trotsky Socialists who came to cheer, pro-Stalin Communists who came to boo, were both kept from the pier. Mrs Lubinsky went ashore in Athens, not tc inspect arrested Capitalist Samuel Insull but "to visit an antique shop"--presumably a disguised hideout for Trotsky Communists. When the ship reached Naples, Mr. Lubinsky dodged all but one persistent photographer (who snapped a view of the back of his hat), hurried ashore for a quick motor ride to Sorrento and Pompeii. Whisked through Marseilles by the police. Comrade Trotsky motored to Lyon. announced the subject of his Copenhagen lectures: "Just what is the Russian Revolution of October?" Reporters agreed that Comrade Trotsky is taking chances on his trip to Denmark. Germany still will not let him cross her frontiers. France and Italy cannot be expected to exert themselves unduly should either White Russians or Stalin Communists take pot shots at the onetime Red War Lord.

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