RUSSIA: Trotzky's Week

War Lord Leon Trotzky passed an exciting week—according to the press.

The Daily Telegraph of London gave the lie to a report (TIME, Dec. 22) that the War Lord had left Moscow for the Caucasus. According to this newspaper, his enemies had jailed him.

Comrade Semashko, Commissar of Public Health, averred that the War Lord was in Moscow, that his health had forced him at the last moment to cancel his trip to the Caucasus, that he was busy on some literary work, his health meantime much improved. The Commissar said that the War Lord was not in prison, but living...

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