‘Napoleon of Russian Revolution,’ Pale, Tubercular, Leaves Silently (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
With twenty-five dollars in his pocket and tuberculosis of the lungs, pale of face and silent, Leon Trotzky, the son of a Jewish chemist, Braunstein, boarded the train at 9:20 Monday night which took him to his exile.
As the train moved out of the Moscow station, the career of “the Napoleon of the Russian revolution,” one of the most remarkable life stories of a Russian Jew, entered what seems to be the last dramatic phase. A crowd of five thousand, consisting mainly of intellectuals and workers’ leaders, assembled at the station to bid farewell to Trotzky who was accompanied on his five thousand mile journey to Vierny in Russian Turkestan by his wife and son. No disorders occurred, but tears were shed by his adherents.
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