basically comparing the minority to the old mensheviks calling them petty bourgeois complainers and so on and when they got mad about that, calling him enraged which got a really mad. sylvia, the brooklyn trotskyist, who is the cat's paw in the story took the side of the minority and when she got to mexico city, she was invited to debate, come to trotsky's house and debate with him and the guards in trotsky's study. this is where hormone and -- monona saw his opening. he was a supporter of trotsky and majority. he saw very little about politics. he was very awkward about it and should have been clear and it was clear to everyone around trotsky on the less they went along with it. the carter wrote in a draft of an article defending the majority position and he had it ready in august, 1940 and asked trotsky to read it. he maneuvered to be alone with trotsky just the two of them in the late afternoon of august 20th as the guards were busy installing a new siren had been received from the comrades in los angeles. mccotter, who trotsky assumed was a canadian businessman by the name of frank