Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Communist Party went out of its way last week to show how British it is. At its first annual convention since the Comintern was dissolved, the Party...
...Kremlin, involving, rumor said, a visit by the Archbishop to Moscow, perhaps from Teheran. It was a dizzy prospect to dwell on, for Communism and Catholicism have been archenemies through a bitter quarter century. Yet Francis Spellman may have talked to Russian envoys in Ankara. The dissolution of the Comintern (TIME, May 31) had come in the midst of his mission, and it must have pleased the papacy. The Vatican radio had begun broadcasts to Russia, friendly in nature and designed to dispel the Russian people's "complete spiritual isolation." Moscow had not objected...
...smiles in Moscow matched smiles in London and Washington, not only over the good fellowship of Joe Davies and Joe Stalin but over something bigger it reflected: the growing good fellowship of Russia, Britain and the U.S. Success on the battlefronts and the Comintern's dissolution (TIME, May 31), heady as a couple of beakers of vodka, had put all in jovial humor. The statesmen saw what a long way the three Allies had come within a year. The crusty old reserve was melting. A new understanding seemed dawning. Pushkin & Byron. The keynoter was Russia. Gone was yesteryear...
...members be permitted to join the Labor Party en masse, on the condition that they promise to abide by all official Labor Party decisions. Each time, the petition has been refused by the Labor Party's Executive Committee, with the comment that British Communists were tied by the Comintern to Moscow...
...When the Comintern was abolished last fortnight, British Communists decided to try again (". . . in the light of the new circumstances negotiations should at once be opened"). Last week Labor's Executive Committee once more said no. Such affiliation, the Committee commented, "would be disastrous...