Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game of "Let's Pretend," begun when Washington extended diplomatic recognition to Moscow (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). The pretense, in Russian eyes, was exactly 50% of Mr. Roosevelt's making. He knew, as all the world knew, that the Soviet State has always had in Moscow the Comintern (see col. 3) which has as its avowed object the violent overthrow of the U. S. and all other non-Communist governments. Yet, knowing this, the President accepted assurances from Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff which meant nothing at all if they did not mean that Dictator Stalin would...
...have felt they had a friend in likeable "Bill" Bullitt, and something like another friend in charming Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The sudden note from Washington last week was based not on previous Soviet violations of the Litvinoff pledge of noninterference with U. S. domestic affairs, but on the latest Comintern Congress in Moscow, at which U. S. Communist leaders in numbers openly vaunted their Red activities (TIME, Aug. 12 & 26). Ambassador Bullitt first announced that he would be out of Moscow during the Congress, visiting Soviet Black Sea resorts with his 11-year-old daughter Anne. At the last moment...
...Soviet experimental farm, adding as a snapper: "The purpose seems to be to improve the next generation of the Soviet population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal World Revolution for a time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder-tongued Red hero...
...made still more glaring the original worthlessness of the Soviet pledge accepted by President Roosevelt. The issue of what the President is going to do about it was considered so grave that Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, who had planned to be away from Moscow during the Congress of the Comintern, canceled arrangements to visit Odessa with his 11-year-old daughter Anne, remained at his post to listen and report to Washington...
...born in New York City when he ran as the Communist candidate for Governor of California in 1934 (and got 45,000 votes), he swore he was born in Russia this year when he applied for a passport on which to go to Moscow for the Congress of the Comintern. Armed with this evidence, San Francisco's Captain Healy prepared to have Sam Darcy indicted for perjury...