Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of Li Lisan is almost a legend. In the days when the Chinese Communist Party was breast-fed by Moscow (circa 1925), Li Lisan had been the party's No. 1 Marxist and tactical top dog. Then German Communist Heinz Neumann and Georgian Communist M. Lominadze, Comintern agents and personal pets of Stalin, decided to speed up the Chinese revolution by staging an insurrection in Canton (1927). Li Lisan opposed them...
...next year he visited Russia, won rights for the sale of liquid gases to the U.S.S.R. Back in Manhattan, he organized the International Publishers Association (51% Comintern-owned), spent $115,000 in the next decade on the publication of left-wing books and pamphlets. He dug deep into his jeans to bolster the shaky finances of the Daily Worker...
Before the French Communist Executive Committee Papa Duclos pitched into Comrade Togliatti for arguing that Trieste must remain "Italian" rather than become Yugoslav, as Comrade Tito insists. Meanwhile, Les Cahiers published an article on Trieste by Stephane Mitrovitch, Yugoslav veteran of the old Comintern. Charged Mitrovitch: "Our Italian comrades . . . [are guilty of] political and theoretical deviations . . . erroneous conceptions . . . [that reinforce] reactionary forces in Italy and the world...
...subsequent list of seven supposed members of the militaristic Black Dragon Society had to be revised rapidly. Two of the seven were dead, one of them since 1938. A third was not a member. A fourth name, that of onetime Premier Koki Hirota, who in 1936 signed the anti-Comintern pact, was removed without explanation...
...Edged Sickle. Italian Communism is a two-edged sickle: 1) the Party, as represented by longheaded, Comintern-trained Palmiro Togliatti, Minister of Justice in Parri's coalition cabinet; 2) L'Apparato (The Apparatus), a secret organization, set up for strikes and possible violent action. L'Apparato is reputedly bossed by Italy-born, Russia-naturalized Ruggiero Grieco...