"Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution," by Antony C. Sutton wrote:
WOODROW WILSON AND A
PASSPORT FOR TROTSKY
President Woodrow Wilson was the
fairy godmother who provided Trotsky with a passport to return to Russia
to "carry forward" the revolution. This American passport was
accompanied by a Russian entry permit and a British transit visa.
Jennings C. Wise, in Woodrow Wilson: Disciple of Revolution,
makes the pertinent comment, "Historians must never forget that Woodrow
Wilson, despite the efforts of the British police, made it possible for
Leon Trotsky to enter Russia with an American passport."
President Wilson facilitated
Trotsky's passage to Russia at the same time careful State Department
bureaucrats, concerned about such revolutionaries entering Russia, were
unilaterally attempting to tighten up passport procedures. The Stockholm
legation cabled the State Department on June 13, 1917, just after
Trotsky crossed the Finnish-Russian border, "Legation confidentially
informed Russian, English and French passport offices at Russian
frontier, Tornea, considerably worried by passage of suspicious persons
bearing American passports."
To this cable the State Department
replied, on the same day, "Department is exercising special care in
issuance of passports for Russia"; the department also authorized
expenditures by the legation to establish a passport-control office in
Stockholm and to hire an "absolutely dependable American citizen" for
employment on control work. But the bird had flown the
coop. Menshevik Trotsky with Lenin's Bolsheviks were already in Russia
preparing to "carry forward" the revolution. The passport net erected
caught only more legitimate birds. For example, on June 26, 1917, Herman
Bernstein, a reputable New York newspaperman on his way to Petrograd to
represent the New York Herald, was held at the border and refused
entry to Russia. Somewhat tardily, in mid-August 1917 the Russian
embassy in Washington requested the State Department (and State agreed)
to "prevent the entry into Russia of criminals and anarchists... numbers
of whom have already gone to Russia."
Consequently, by virtue of
preferential treatment for Trotsky, when the S.S. Kristianiafjord
left New York on March 26, 1917, Trotsky was aboard and holding a U.S.
passport — and in company with other Trotskyire revolutionaries, Wall
Street financiers, American Communists, and other interesting persons,
few of whom had embarked for legitimate business. This mixed bag of
passengers has been described by Lincoln Steffens, the American
Communist:
The passenger list was long
and mysterious. Trotsky was in the steerage with a group of
revolutionaries; there was a Japanese revolutionist in my cabin.
There were a lot of Dutch hurrying home from Java, the only innocent
people aboard. The rest were war messengers, two from Wall Street to
Germany....
Notably, Lincoln Steffens was
on board en route to Russia at the specific invitation of Charles
Richard Crane, a backer and a former chairman of the Democratic Party's
finance committee. Charles Crane, vice president of the Crane Company,
had organized the Westinghouse Company in Russia, was a member of the
Root mission to Russia, and had made no fewer than twenty-three visits
to Russia between 1890 and 1930. Richard Crane, his son, was
confidential assistant to then Secretary of State Robert Lansing.
According to the former ambassador to Germany William Dodd, Crane "did
much to bring on the Kerensky revolution which gave way to Communism."
And so Steffens' comments in his diary about conversations aboard the
S.S. Kristianiafjord are highly pertinent: " . . . all agree that
the revolution is in its first phase only, that it must grow. Crane and
Russian radicals on the ship think we shall be in Petrograd for the
re-revolution.
Crane returned to the United
States when the Bolshevik Revolution (that is, "the re-revolution") had
been completed and, although a private citizen, was given firsthand
reports of the progress of the Bolshevik Revolution as cables were
received at the State Department. For example, one memorandum, dated
December 11, 1917, is entitled "Copy of report on Maximalist uprising
for Mr. Crane." It originated with Maddin Summers, U.S. consul general
in Moscow, and the covering letter from Summers reads in part:
I have the honor to enclose
herewith a copy of same [above report] with the request that it be
sent for the confidential information of Mr. Charles R. Crane. It is
assumed that the Department will have no objection to Mr. Crane
seeing the report ....
In brief, the unlikely and
puzzling picture that emerges is that Charles Crane, a friend and backer
of Woodrow Wilson and a prominent financier and politician, had a known
role in the "first" revolution and traveled to Russia in mid-1917 in
company with the American Communist Lincoln Steffens, who was in touch
with both Woodrow Wilson and Trotsky. The latter in turn was carrying a
passport issued at the orders of Wilson and $10,000 from supposed German
sources. On his return to the U.S. after the "re-revolution," Crane was
granted access to official documents concerning consolidation of the
Bolshevik regime: This is a pattern of interlocking — if puzzling —
events that warrants further investigation and suggests, though without
at this point providing evidence, some link between the financier Crane
and the revolutionary Trotsky.
The name "Crane" is also a play on Isis, the
crane-"wife" who is impregnated by the dead Osiris and gives birth to
Horus, the God of Death. There is a homosexuality joke here.

Crane / Isis . Of
course, hiding under the woman and the crane is the vulture. In misogynistic
human history, woman is the harbinger of all evil. To a sun
worshipper who wishes to live on light, embody pure spirit, and experience
deathlessness, woman is guilty of
the greatest sin of all: birthing beings into the world of form!
If you're not born, you can't die.

"The Egyptian Book of
the Dead" wrote:
His sister [Isis] hath protected
him, and hath repulsed the fiends, and turned aside calamities (of evil).
She uttered the spell with the magical power of her mouth. Her tongue was
perfect, and it never halted at a word. Beneficent in command and word was
Isis, the woman of magical spells, the advocate of her brother. She sought
him untiringly, she wandered round and round about this earth in sorrow,
and she alighted not without finding him. She made light with her
feathers, she created air with her wings, and she uttered the death wail
for her brother. She raised up the inactive members of whose heart was
still, she drew from him his essence, she made an heir, she reared the
child in loneliness, and the place where he was not known, and he grew in
strength and stature, and his hand was mighty in the House of Keb. The
Company of the Gods rejoiced, rejoiced, at the coming of Horus, the son of
Osiris, whose heart was firm, the triumphant, the son of Isis, the heir of
Osiris. |