War Lord Leon Trotzky was reported to be writing a new book, My Mistakes, which is expected to reheat* the ire of the Bolshevik triumvirateKamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin.
A trial in which the accused were convicted prisoners, the witnesses convicted prisoners, the spectators convicted prisoners, was held in a prison at Leningrad. The accused, 23 of them, were charged with attempting the murder of a prison mate whom they declared was an agent of the dread Cheka, or revolutionary tribunal.
To Moscow went Leonid Krassin, Bolshevik Ambassador to France; Nikolai Krestinsky, Bolshevik Ambassador to Germany; Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires in Britain. In the...