Leon Trotsky et al: Telegram to Mr. Harte

June 25, 1940

[Writings of Leon Trotsky, Vol 12, 1939-1940, New York ²1973, p. 295]

My wife, my collaborators, I, bow in deep mourning before the grief of the mother and father of our dear Bob. Only consolation in these bitter hours is that the wild slander against Bob through which the assassins tried to conceal the assassination is now unmasked. As a hero, Bob perished for ideas he believed in.

Natalia and Leon Trotsky, Joe Hansen, Harold Robins, Charles Cornell, Jake Cooper, Otto Schüssler, Walter O'Rourke.