Word: comintern
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...Russian policy expects from the 'purges' what it expected in 1935-36 from the 'popular fronts' set up in several countries . .. [by] the Comintern. . . . The aim of the Comintern was to eliminate . . . politicians who were prone ... to act against the Soviet Union. . . . The Comintern has disappeared from the scene,* but not the purpose it tried to fulfill. . . . The Moscow policy is to make it impossible for an anti-Soviet coalition to develop in Europe and the rest of the world...
Sitting pretty in the Italian confusion was the Communist Party, led by shrewd, Comintern-trained Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti. Three months ago Moscow had taken the United Nations lead in recognizing the Badoglio Government. Then Togliatti had taken the lead in busting the Italian anti-Fascist front; he led liberals and leftists into the royalist Badoglio Government. In the Bonomi coup, Togliatti had shrewdly trimmed sails with the wind, cruised with the majority against the Marshal. This week, after raising a feckless fuss, Britain (and the U.S.) had to approve the Bonomi Government anyhow. Now the Communists, Italian...
Communist Palmiro Togliatti, 51, Genoa-born, Comintern-trained, now Minister Without Portfolio in the new Italian Government, led onetime antiroyalist politicians in swearing allegiance to the House of Savoy. In the revamped Cabinet, his party held the all-important Ministry of Agriculture, with influence in every Italian village. Observers reported that Communist-and Russian-prestige had never been higher in Italy...
...pages, it is a documentary novel as solid and as solemn as a collection of social workers' case histories, formless, agonized, repetitious, linked only by the personality of Frossia, who in turn is kept going by her faith in a Russia that survives revolutions, the Tcheka, the Comintern, and remains the same...
Three things were clear beyond any doubt: 1) Georgi Dimitrov is a courageous and disciplined agent of World Communism; 2) Earl Browder, for one, is not so sure that the Comintern is dead; 3) Arturo Toscanini is the world's greatest living conductor...