Word: cominform
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...face that Yugoslavia's Communist Boss Tito turned toward his erstwhile big brothers in the Kremlin was beaming more amiably. For a month or more, Yugoslav relations with the Soviet bloc had apparently been growing warmer-warmer than at any time since Tito broke with the Cominform nearly five years ago. The Yugoslav charge d'affaires in Moscow had been personally received by Foreign Minister Molotov, an unheard-of courtesy. Moscow was sending an envoy with the rank of minister to Belgrade, and an exchange of ambassadors was rumored. Criticism of Yugoslavia in the Russian press had almost...
...were desirable. Then, as if to reassure the Western powers that he was not going to collapse in Moscow's arms, he heaped praise on the U.S., Britain and even France for help to his country during the war, and angrily denied that any love fest with the Cominform Communists was in sight. "On the frontier still," he said, "their rifles are shooting our guards. Their press is slandering us. If the U.S.S.R. has softened its propaganda, that is not enough for our country to change its attitude . . . Any changes must be demonstrated by deeds, not words." And what...
...When men like Terracini refuse to obey further orders of the Cominform, when the Socialists find the courage to liberate themselves from Communism...
...member of the party's Politburo, Central Committee and Secretariat, Dahlem headed the East German military buildup, and was East Germany's liaison man to the Cominform. Only two German Communists were bigger: Party General Secretary Walter Ulbricht, who toppled him, and Security Boss Wilhelm Zaisser, who arrested him. His crimes: "Political blindness." He was also charged with having supported Czech Communist Leader Rudolf Slansky, executed as a traitor last year. Warned the official announcement: "The investigation is not over yet." The hyena was still hungry...
International Schemers. Arbenz may not yet realize how much he has come to rely on his Communist advisers and policymakers. If the Reds are putting over the Cominform line in Guatemala, the wider meaning of this is lost on him. Neighboring Central American republics are at odds with Guatemala over the growing evidence that its comrades play the international Communist game, passing Red propaganda into Nicaragua and El Salvador and sending agitators to stir up Salvadorian and Honduran banana and coffee workers. Inside his own country, the split between left & right has widened until Arbenz himself says: "There...