I notice that former leftists in the West often come from Trotskiest organizations; in Lebanon, most of them come from the Communist Action Organization of Muhsin Ibrahim. "In his review of Jacob Heilbrunn’s “They Knew They Were Right” (Jan. 13), Timothy Noah, following Heilbrunn, quotes me as a Trotskyist in 1944 publicly dismissing the “near hysterical insistence upon the pressing military danger” and holding fast to the conviction that “the Allies were no different from the Axis in their imperialism.”"