Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hope the aviator Magnin explains that, while no revolutionist, he is drawn more closely to revolutionists when they suffer defeat. The observation is true of Malraux himself. At odds with the Communists after 1927, embodying severe criticisms of Comintern policy and tactics in Man's Fate and championing Trotsky, he swung around after Hitler seized power in Germany, wrote an anti-fascist novel, Days of Wrath, has been roundly denounced by Trotsky as a Stalinist agent. Learning to fly in 1934, he flew with his instructor over the Arabian Desert, discovered a ruined city which he said...
...Moscow the powerful Comintern station went on the air with Popular Front declarations that "Chamberlain has saved the ruling classes at the expense of the toiling masses. . . . France has ceased to be a great power." In France, the General Confederation of Labor, representing some 3.000,000 trade unionists, announced its "acceptance of the Munich accords for suspending the course to war." but expressed fear that "these accords, limited to some powers, may create a preface to the Constitution of a Four-Power-Pact condemned by public opinion of all democratic countries'' (see p. 19). Paris-Soir, with...
...Czechoslovak Governments. But if, in spite of all efforts made by the British Prime Minister, a German attack is made upon Czechoslovakia, the immediate result must be that France will be bound to come to her assistance, and Great Britain and Russia will certainly stand by France." The Comintern station at Moscow, official propagator of "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat," helped out by hurling in the German language high-powered appeals to the German lower classes to revolt at once against Hitler...
...Today, there are 90,000 Jocists in Belgium, 100,000 in France, a total of 500,000 in Europe, of whom one-sixth are militants. Jocism recruits mem bers at 14, asks their resignations when, they marry or reach 25. Like all militant organizations, from the Jesuits to the Comintern, the Jocists put their leader ship through exhaustive training, holding a retreat-like congress once a year in Belgium. Canon Cardijn calls it "the Jocist Sacrament." For the aim of Jocism is peaceful revolution, a Christian upsurge in the ranks of labor, based not upon Marxian materialism but upon...
...took down Mao's patiently dictated autobiography. Incorporated into Red Star Over China, it makes a valuable document in its own right. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists in 1927, Mao organized the Soviet in Hunan Province. Despite the internal feuds and contradictory policies of the Comintern, the Hunan Soviet lasted from 1930 to 1934, and with only 40,000 men stood off four attacks by Chiang Kai-shek's armies. For this success, Mao had a succinct reason: The misery of the peasants, whose desperate lot (their taxes were collected as far as 60 years...