Trotsky comments that Mexico City is so hot, but in fact, daytime temperatures in Mexico rarely exceed 80F and always reduce to the 50sF or even 40sF at night. This is because Mexico City is situated in a mountain valley at 7,200 feet in altitude.
In Paris in 1902, Parvus remarks that the house is "not the Hilton." Conrad Hilton did not open a hotel bearing his own name until 1925.