Word: cominform
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...Communist Party will not join the recently organized Cominform. The U.S Reds approved the Cominform's avowed aims, the chief of which was to block U.S. aid to Europe. But they were afraid that if they joined, "the reactionary and pro-fascist forces now whipping up anti-Communist hysteria . . . would undoubtedly seize upon such action . . . as a pretext for new provocations and repressions against the Communists and all other sections of the American labor and progressive movement...
...face, the Cominform Manifesto looked like a mistake. France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault called it "just one more blunder." Millions of French and Italian voters had been deluded into believing that Communist national parties in their countries were not subject to outside orders. What did the Communists gain by advertising, at this point, the fact that their national parties were not independent? That was the mystery...
...Trouble Starts." Four-power Military Government rules prohibited the German Communist Party from sending delegates to Miszlakowice. Western observers in Berlin, however, believe that Germany is the real key to Moscow's European policy and that the Cominform declaration was timed to prepare the way for a major Communist drive in Western Germany in a few weeks. Britain and the U.S. are about to publish a list of more than 800 factories to be dismantled for reparations. In their zone the Russians dismantled two years ago, before the Germans had a chance to pick themselves up and dust themselves...
...G.I.s begin shooting, Germany's all-important working class center (members of the Socialist and Christian Democratic Union parties) might be pushed right into the Communist lap, where they will be reassured to feel that they had the 'support of brother working class parties of the Cominform countries...
...when George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel in China, Arthur Vandenberg an editor in Grand Rapids and Harry Truman, having just helped to found the Kansas City Automobile Club, was soliciting members for it. Stalin, even then, was thinking along the lines that led to the organization of the Cominform to fight the Marshall Plan...