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Just after the exiled revolutionary had departed from Norway, The New York Times printed an editorial entitled “Trotsky in Retreat?” that stated: “Trotsky in Mexico is not as formidable as Trotsky a short train ride from the Russian border. Even with modern facilities an ocean is a strategic handicap.”1 This surely did not turn out to be the case, as Trotsky reversed his Norwegian failure and successfully used Mexico as a base of operations to challenge the Moscow show trials and seek personal vindication.
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Notes
Alain Dugrand, Trotsky in Mexico ( Manchester: Carcanet, 1992 ), p. 16;
Alan Wald, James T. Farrell: The Revolutionary Socialist Years ( New York: New York University Press, 1978 ), p. 65;
Patrick Marnham, Dreaming With His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera ( New York: Knopf, 1998 ), pp. 275–78;
Robert Warth, Leon Trotsky ( Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977 ), p. 172.
Joe Ashby, Organized Labor and the Mexican Revolution Under Lazaro Cardenas ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963 ), p. 35.
Gary Bullert, The Politics of John Dewey ( Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1983 ), p. 134;
Eugene Lyons, The Red Decade ( New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1970 ), p. 252;
David Dallin, Soviet Espionage ( New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955 ), p. 407.
Mauritz Hallgren, The Tragic Fallacy ( New York: Knopf, 1937 ).
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Klinghoffer, A.J., Klinghoffer, J.A. (2002). A Tribunal Crystallizes. In: International Citizens’ Tribunals. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299163_7
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