Word: cominform
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...somewhere in Poland "to reorganize the general staff of the world revolution." Of these 18, two have been executed, two excommunicated; two have risen higher in favor, at least three, and possibly five, have been purged. Moreover, the leadership of every one of the six principal satellites in the Cominform has been shaken up. The roll call...
YUGOSLAVIA-Tito sent Edvard Kardelj and Milovan Djilas to the original Cominform meeting. After Tito broke from Moscow in 1948, all three were damned as "lackeys of the imperialists." Disposition: excommunicated...
Kelley's review of Tito and the Cominform by Adam B. Ulan is a little better. For most of the review, however, Kelley merely repeats Ulan's theses. He also seems to have a deadly fascination for the semi-colon, a choice punctuation he uses at least ten times. This plus a few colons makes the review difficult and often run-on reading. The other review, on Ghost and Flesh by William Goven, contains some excellent critical writing...
...days of predatory landowners and conscienceless capitalists. Any writer who follows this theme strictly is almost bound to fill his pages with the typed, dusty characters of proletarian fiction, Mr. Moneybags the Magnate, Mr. Whip the Overseer, Mr. Steel the Informer, Mr. Dawn the Red, Miss Cominform the Workers' Belle...
...Irving Brown has become one of the Americans that Communists know best-and hate most. In Belgium Communists call him "the grey eminence of the yellow international," in Italy "Scarface, the notorious American fascist racketeer," in Prague "the chief union splitter." Tass has accused him of everything from forging Cominform documents to shipping German virgins to Africa "to amuse young Americans."* Last week Brown was in Washington reporting to A.F.L. leaders on how he had earned such Red epithets...