IN MEMORY: L. D. TROTSKY
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tion." He was killed just for that reason, for he might have played
too great a historical role, had he ever been able to return to the
land and the people of that Russia he understood so profoundly.
Jlt was the logic of his passionate convictions, as well as certain
secondary errors stemming from this passion, which brought about
his death: to win over to his views an obscure individual, some one
who didn't exist, who was only a decoy painted by the GPU in
revolutionary colors, he admitted him to his solitary study, and
this nobody, carrying out orders, struck him down from behind as
he bent over a commonplace manuscript. The pickaxe penetrated
the head to a depth of three inches.
(Translated from
the
French
by
Dwight Macdonald)
Coming in early issues:
Edmund Wilson: Ellen Terhune (a long story)
Katherine Anne Porter: The Season of Fear (a story)
Philip Rahv: The Heiress of All the Ages, A Study of the Heroine
in Henry James
Rosa luxemburg: Letters from Prison (a new series, hitherto
unpublished)
Alex Comfort: English Poetry and the War
Hans Gerth: Karl Marx and Max Weber
Poems by John Frederick Nims, Isabella Fey, and Horace Gregory
