Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unwelcome guests: Novelist Howard (Freedom Road) Fast, an editor of the Communist New Masses; Communist Gerhart Eisler, reputed U.S. Comintern boss; Arnold Johnson, legislative director of the Communist Party; Carl Marzani, dismissed by the State Department for concealing his Communist card...
When the Russians marched into Rumania in August 1944, Ana was among them, in a Red Army officer's uniform. She became boss of the Rumanian Communists, co-founder of the revived Comintern and one of Stalin's most trusted lieutenants in the Balkans, ranking with Tito and Bulgaria's Georgi Dimitroff...
Rivera and Siqueiros once went to Moscow to attend a Comintern session. On the German ship coming home they began arguing: Siqueiros was for Stalin, Rivera was for Trotsky. No one else on the boat understood Spanish, but they all stared fascinated at the table where the two men sat, meal after meal, fighting it out with high words and bitter tears. Finally the two asked for separate tables and Rivera, shaken by the fury of the quarrel, took to his bunk. Says Siqueiros, "When we reached Veracruz there were two delegations at the pier. One was composed of Rivera...
...deceptively simple to poke fun at Barnes' announcement. Any man who piously asserts his "considered opinion" to be that the "re-establishment of the Comintern . . . and its increased efforts within this country have created a situation fraught with danger to the Commonwealth" is making himself a broad target for board witticisms. But to laugh off Barnes' who successfully sponsored a highly restrictive labor bill last fall, is to ignore a man capable of exerting considerable influence to ends that actually are fraught with danger...
Pravda had previously tried to play down the Little Comintern, brushing it off as a mere information bureau. Zhdanov, however, is one of the five top men of Russia and the prime mover in the Little Comintern reorganization, and should know more about it than Pravda. He said that the group was brought into being because the "open expansionist program of the U.S. is reminiscent of the extraordinary and infamous defeated program of Fascist aggressors." General Zhdanov clearly connected the Little Comintern with the main line of Soviet policy. The line itself he expressed with great clarity...