RUSSIA: War Lord's Grief

Came the news that War Lord Trotzky, who is convalescing at Tiflis in Georgia (extreme southwest Russia), only recently received the news of Nikolai Lenin's death (TiME, Jan. 28). Said he:

"Lenin is here no longer, Lenin is here no longer.

"The mysterious forces that regulate the functioning of the blood vessels have smashed this life to pieces. . . .

"How many among them would not have hesitated to shed the last drop of their own blood ... in order to revive the functioning of his blood vessels!...

"And Lenin is here no...

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