Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Hellman's papers are held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Hellman denied that the character was based on Gardiner. Endorsing this view the editors of the New Republic wrote that "there are more important questions than Trotsky's guilt".