I told him. Then came this astonishing final question:

“Is Trotzky a good man?”

“From what point of view good?”

“Morally....”

I could not embark at this last moment upon a discussion of what are

morals through an interpreter. I thought. I hesitated. I wondered, as I

never had wondered before, about Trotzky, and then I admitted that so

far as I knew, Trotzky was a moral man!

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