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		"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. |