Foreign News: 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...

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