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Kings as personalities and symbols
Actually, such outcast thinkers and
writer's. men Of science and the arts.
are better of in exile than suf1ocating
in the airlessness of their own coun-
tries, since creative brains cannot
produce except when in q free atmos-
phere. Take the case Of noted pro-
fessor of ethnography at Bonn Uni
versity, who not long since received
instructions to teach his classes that
the Japanese were Aryans and, refus-
ing. was threatened with imprison-
ment, and fled to Switzerland.
There Is small doubt as to which
outcast in this realm Of the mind will
most interest posterity. At 20. young
Jew named Bronstein was sent to
Siberia. At 40, this same individual,
now Leon Trotsky, commanded the
greatest revolutionary army since the
1790s, having first summoned 1t from
chaos. At so, Trotsky languished in
exile on the Marmora Isle of Prinkipo.
At so that Is still in the lap of the
gods.
Trotsky,s third exile saw him hidden
away in Rambouillet Forest under an
assumed name, until discovered by the
Paris newspapers. It was then that
he had probably the closest shave that
he will ever know. White Russians,
living in impoverished Partisan exile,
heard Of Trotsky's hideout. Fully
armed, they stationed themselves
around his forest villa. There would
have been no hope had Trotsky
emerged. How he dematerialized has
never been revealed, but we next find
him on the boat for Scandinavia and
exiled in Norway, a health-giving in
terlude. But. alas for Trotsky. Stain
charged that his arch-enemy had
plotted against his life and would the
Norwegian government kindly see
about 1t? On December 18 this gov
ernment obliged, with the sequel that
Trotsky sailed away to the one haven
offering, Mexico. His only papers"
consisted of an out-of-da Turkish
refugee passport.
In appearance. Trotsky has under
gone a transformation. From the
stockheaded "Bolshie" he has become
the tanned. outdoor professor, white
hair smoothed back and parted at the
side. mustache clipped in toothbrush
style.
BY comparison, Albert Einstein's
exile is serene and quiet. II do not in
tend to put my foot on German soil
again as long as conditions in Ger
many are what they are" relativity' S
discoverer announced after the Nazis
came to power. and three years ago
his house was raided, his library
burned, his property seized and Elm
stein himself was deprived of German
citizenship. Ever since he has divided
his time between France and America.
met Thomas Mann just after the
family went into self-imposed exile in
1884. Frau Mann told me how they
had been forced to leave their home
at q few minutes notice. 1t was later
sacked. When the Nobel winner is not
lecturing in America, he is to be found
at Kunsacht, near Zurich.
Many German exiles have made
their homes in the Zurich district.
Apart from the language and customs,
it feels so near Others are not much
farther away in the Tessin. the Italian
part of Switzerland. Names that come
to mind include Remarque, Emil Lud-
wig, Feuchtwanger. the brothers Zweig
Paris has a little coterie of promi-
nent outcasts- s-ex-Premier Nitti, who
favors a Montparnasse apartment,
where he writes; Alexander Kerensky,
doyen. who. after editing an anti-bol-
shevik paper until 1t went on the rocks
year ago. now concentrates on books.
Count Carlo Sforza, Italy's ex-for-
eign minister. writes in Brussels. So
does the poet Ivan Bunin, Nobel win
ner in 1888. Ernst Toller prefers Lon
don. The whereabouts Of that fine
German. former Chancellor Bruening,
| is not clear.
Barred Only in Egypt.
And now for some of the more exotic
exiles.
The ex-Khedive Of Egypt has been
longest in exile-since 1914. But
Abbas Hilmi II can visit any land
except Egypt. and he does. spending
much Of the time aboard his luxurious
steam yacht Nimet Allah, which is
fitted with dance floor and bar, al
though its owner. prefers the library
What fall was Amanullah,s! One
year driving with Hindenburg. quar-
tered in Orientalized apartments in
Buckingham Palace-the next, he and
his Queen hard put to it as outcasts
at Vevey. Since then Amanullah has
tried and tried to earn a livelihood,
even as house agent. At A he Is of
the map, in Rome, where the Duce
Is reputed to be friend in need.
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