Word: comintern
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...Good Scare. Viewed in that light, recent events were not leading toward war but away from it. Creation of the Little Comintern would help both Europeans and Americans understand the necessity of work and sacrifice in support of the Marshall Plan to keep the non-Communist part of the world stronger. True, the fear of war had grown. But fear and vigilance were close kin. The danger of war between Russia and the West had always lain in the possibility that the West would not understand the danger. The bitter candor of recent weeks was prophylactic, not symptomatic...
...trying to unravel the real meaning of what happened when 17 men and a woman met at a hunting lodge in Miszlakowice, Poland, and there created a thing that Communists called the "Cominform" (meaning Communist Information Bureau) and which most of the rest of the world called the "New Comintern" or the "Little Comintern." To help them figure it out, the detective-statesmen had Dr. Watsons who were experts in everything from gamma rays to Lenin's writings. Piecing together a clue here and a clue there, the chancelleries had, by last weekend, made a little progress in solving...
When Communist-led miners struck last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 13), González Videla sensed a Red plot to disrupt his country's economy. Announcement of the rebirth of the Comintern, the day after the strike began, set off an explosion...
That night González' press secretary called in newspapermen. The Government statement noted the rebirth of the Comintern, accused Cunja of plotting against Chile's independence and meddling in its internal affairs. Visitor Jakasa was pictured as an instruction-bearer from the Yugoslav Minister in Buenos Aires...
...series was perfectly timed. It broke the day before news of the Comintern's revival, with the result that more than 25 other top U.S. newspapers promptly signed up the series. (Nine book publishers also bid for it.) The eleven articles would take few prizes for good writing, but their unemotional factualism and scope made them an impressive job of reporting. With some of their startling conclusions, many a reader would probably take issue-even though they were backed by the conservative Trib...