Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
TROTSKY RANTS
AT FATE'S TURN
SIamming of Door by Ger
many Arouses Anger of
Russian Exile.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CONSTANT1NOPLE, April 29.--With-
in the frail walls Of tiny white house
on the outskirts of Constantinople PAGES
the man whom not so long ago the
world seemed too small to contain. Leon
Trotsky, exiled Bolshevist chieftain,
partner of Lenin. has lost another fight,
has heard the German door he longed
to enter slammed in his face, and has
nothing left but to settle down in his
present obscure and hated corner.
Time may inculcate in the fiery en-
Filtered Bolshevist that Oriental resig-
nation which permeates the land of his
exile, and the world may yet have the
picture of a Trotsky dulcetly dreaming
of the past over quietly melancholy
hubble-bu bubble and innumerable cups OF
thick Turkish coffee. But the present
finds him furiously unresigned. Hurl-
ing invectives at Stain. who threw him
out of Russia, and the Germany that
turned him down, he stares from his
narrow window, not at the mansion Of
the Egyptian princess across the way
from his little house, nor at the Turk
at the barren, monotonous Thracian
hills beyond, but upon a world grown
wild and terrible.
Foresees World Drenched In War.
He sees-he has told his interviewers
as much-a world drenched again in
war, a war originating In Anglo Ameri-
can rivalries and he gives modern civil
lization not more than 10 years before
that war will strike. Bitterly he sees
Stain as traitor to the principles Of
Lenin, principles from which he vows
that he himself has not swerved and
will never swerve hairs breath, even
tho&1 his life hangs by that hair.
WAN bitterness that almost blinds
him, he sees Germany traitor to "de-
mocracy's right of asylum" as his own
phrase puts 1t. and raps out to the press
CT the world his biting sarcasm. Ger
many, 1t appears, did not find me In a
sufficiently dying condition to grant me
admission. The point at stake. appar-
emily, was not the right of asylum, but
the right of burial"
That Germany's decision to debar him
was influenced by Moscow is clearly his
opinion. Moscow wishes him to remain
in Constantinople for much the same
reasons that he himself wishes TO be al
most anywhere else.
Trotsky has informed his Turkish
hosts in no n1incing terms that he is an
unwilling guest. He might be a Robin
son CruSoe minus even man Friday on
desert isle, for all the companionship,
politically speaking, that exists for him
here. Turkey, adamantly opposed to the
slightest stirring of communistic propa-
ganda within her borders, will never
allow Constantino.,e to become mecca
for pilgrim Trotskyists. and none exist
on the spot. Intellectually, as we'll as
politically, the exile is stranded here
because of his ignorance of the Turkish
language and his imperfect knowledge
Of French, Turkeys foster-mother
tongue. He has here neither the COM
mand Of the language nor the coterie
that made Germany his preferred place
Of exile.
Cites Condition Of Health.
Moreover, his desire to fee Con-
stantinople Is motivated by his concern
for his health. While his fight for q
German visa was being waged he In
structed his intermediary in Berlin, DR..
Kurt Resented. to make clear his will
ingness to submit his physical condi-
ton to the examination of German
medical experts as support to his
claim that he desired to enter Germany
not for political purposes but for urgent
~ needed medical care.
He agreed also to leave Germany i'm
mediately upon the termination of tho
necessary medical treatment. He wants
to place himself under the care of the
same German specialists who operated
on him formerly in Russia and in Ber-
lin, and he believes, probably with rea-
son. that the damp, changeable, de-
b litating climate of Constantinople Is
aggravating his Ill health. It Is GER
tainly an established fact that even
husky foreigners from more bracing
rlimes become run down after pro-
longed stay in this city of sudden
changes from biting wet North winds
to sultry southerlies and sodden down.
p3urs.
Thus menaced physically and men
tally by Moscows planting Of him here,
Trotsky has been desperately seeking
during the last two months for a door
OF escape. Escape may come through
the attempts which he has given to
understand he will soon begin to make
to enter countries other than Germany.
And 1t may come with pistol shot, for
despite the careful protection Of the
Turkish police and his own care to re-
main as unnoticeable as possible here.
the possibility of an attack upon his
person by some one Of the MANY half
crazed white Russian refugees in this
city Turks around the corner Of his
present life.
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