also, IIRC his height was reported in french inches, which the british press then did not convert to british inches, so he sounded short, and they kinda ran with this as propaganda.
the soviet union (the greatest evil ever) fell because estonians joined hands. how can this fail against trumpler, who is not as bad as the soviet union?
this is an ancient rewarmed take, it was used to explain away the high approval rating of communist governments in the warsaw pact countries. by liberals living in those very countries.
"islam" "took" "constantinople" you see. every western educated child is taught about rome never giving up during the punic wars and just doing war by excel sheets and eventually winning, no matter how long it took. and every western educated child is taught of the great shame and loss of constantinople and the holy land to the infidel.
this is a fake wound kept deliberately alive through the centuries, always there to find fertile soil in the politics of the day.