Word: antifascists
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...Soil. The man for whom London and Washington were speaking was the symbol of another new Poland. This one too was antifascist, but democratic, willing to be Russia's friend but not its vassal. At 45, sturdy, strong-shouldered Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is unquestionably his country's most popular political leader. Barring a rigged election or sudden death, he and his peasant followers seemed likely to emerge from any fair test at the polls as Poland's No. 1 political faction...
...without party affiliation, Skrzypczinsky was recommended by the Communists. Under Premier Marshal Zhukov were twelve ministries (one for each division of the Soviet Military Government), each headed by a Red Army officer. Under each Red Army officer was a German state secretary (selected from lists submitted by the four "antifascist" parties). As state secretaries, the Russians picked five Communists, three Social Democrats, two Christian Democrats, one Liberal Democrat, one nonparty member...
...general strike touched off by the arrest during the past fortnight of 50 persons (including the editor of the local Communist newspaper). The charge: violating military security. A second strike, postponed by trade unionists at the request of the Allied authorities, threatened. Cried the Belgrade Radio: "AntiFascist workers have been arrested .. . democratic rights are being infringed...
...Communists hoped that their manifesto would "serve as the basis for the formation of a bloc of antifascist, democratic parties." This popular-front tactic began to work at once. Members of the Social Democratic Party decided to cooperate with the Communist Party in a joint working committee of 20 to carry out the Communist program. Since the German Communists in the past have fought Social Democrats even more fiercely than they fought the Nazis, this was a historic handclasp...
...further concession to local and foreign pressure, the Argentine Government had already announced that it would free its political prisoners. It actually freed some 265. Invited back from exile in Montevideo was Argentina's revered elder statesman, walrus-mustached Alfredo Palacios, a vigorous antifascist, to resume his old job as president of La Plata University...