Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had stubborn leadership, personified by a veteran tactician of civil war and a veteran of the Comintern, tall, lumbering Mao Tse-tung, who in 1939 preached: "An important part of our political line is armed struggle . . . [to] convert an imperialistic war [so-called by all Communists, before the invasion of Russia] into a revolutionary civil...
...Comintern Agent. Susuku Okano, 52, helped found the Japanese Communist Party (1922), spent many years in Moscow, served as one of the Communist International's Far Eastern experts. He was a disciple of the late Sen Katayama (once a Comintern agent in the U.S.), who was so violently anti-American that German Geopolitician Karl Haushofer gave his views a special classification-revolutionary pan-Asiatism of the "Katayama type...
...Germany reoccupied the Rhineland and signed the anti-Comintern pact with Japan...
...factory worker's son and a militant trade unionist, Dimitroff began making international incidents in the early 1920s. En route to the second Comintern Congress in Moscow, he was picked up in Rumania as a spy, was rescued from liquidation by Russian intervention. In 1923 he led Bulgaria's abortive Communist revolt, barely escaped with his life across the Yugoslav border...
Stalin made him a deputy of the Supreme Soviet and chief of the Comintern. In this post, Dimitroff promoted "popular fronts" abroad. After the dissolution of the Comintern in 1943. he lapsed into relative silence. Now he will help keep his native Bulgaria in the Soviet sphere...