Word: anti-fascist
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...similar feeling was broadcast by Berlin Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht. Said he: the "united front" program for a democratic, anti-fascist Germany should be adopted "from the Oder to the Ruhr, from Mecklenburg to Wiirttemberg." This was far beyond the Russian zone. It was also something for the Potsdam parley (see INTERNATIONAL) to ponder upon...
...manifesto had declared that 10,000,000 Germans must share the guilt of Naziism, but it added: "We Communists declare that we also feel ourselves guilty, inasmuch as we were not able, in consequence of a series of mistakes, to force an anti-fascist unity of workers for the overthrow of Hitler." In view of the fact that in the past the German Communist Party had done everything possible to prevent an anti-fascist unity of the workers, this modest admission was a political necessity...
...Burma's governor, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, whom the Japanese had chased out of Burma. Now he was back. Back too was Premier Sir Paw Tun, whom the Japanese had also chased out. Near him sat bland, ambitious, influential U Than Tun, general secretary of the Communist-dominated Anti-Fascist Organization. Sayadaw Aletawaya, 90, head of the Buddhist church, sent his regrets: recently he had fallen asleep during an investiture at Government House and did not feel up to a conference on a warship...
...formed active guerrilla bands, mostly under Communist leadership. In Arakan a typical resistance group, led by a left-wing Buddhist monk named U Pinnyathaiha, organized a food blockade to starve the Japs, partisan groups to kill them. The mainspring of the Burmese maquis was the Communist-controlled, strongly separatist Anti-Fascist League, which has already named a national government to take over the country when it becomes independent...
These men, headed by Berlin Communist Walter Bartel, had drafted a blueprint for Germany. They wanted: 1) a popular front of anti-fascist committees to provide the framework of an interim government; 2) re-establishment of a modified form of the Weimar Republic; 3) federalization of the new Reich to prevent domination by Prussia; 4) confiscation of all Nazi property; 5) close economic relations with Russia; 6) educational reform...