Word: comintern
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...Wollweber was one of the ringleaders in the mutiny of the German Imperial Navy after World War I. Later, according to Jan Valtin's Out of the Night, he was a potent force in the underground organization of the Comintern...
...that the murders looked like accidents. It told how they kidnapped their enemies-and the kidnappings looked like unsolved disappearances. The work of a German ex-Communist who wrote under the name of Jan Valtin, it painted a savage picture of the depravity of the Comintern, OGPU agents, the world's Communist parties...
...into the lining of a suitcase C"Astonishing numbers of undercover agents were on their way to South American states. The Communist Parties there were known to have strong anarchist tendencies. Moscow did not trust the Latin-American leaders out of sight, and therefore had them amply covered with Comintern supervisors.") While the U. S. was shaking its head over the crimes of Dillinger, Jan Valtin's Communists were ambushing and being ambushed on the Hamburg waterfront ("Seven young Nazis were on their way to distribute propaganda to the dockers at the harbor gates. . . . [The] crew sauntered up behind...
...Night is an autobiography, but through its pages slinks many a Communist bigwig. There is Bulgarian Comrade Georgi Dimitrov, now secretary of the Communist International, once hero of the Reichstag fire trial. Valtin reveals him as the flabby, dandified, over-perfumed head (for many years) of the Comintern's West European underground section. There is sly, foxy Heinz Neumann, who plotted the 1927 uprising in Canton, China. Once Stalin's darling, he was shot in Stalin's Purge. There is George Mink, ex-Philadelphia taxi driver, Communist organizer of New York's water front, OGPU gunman...
...week's crop of eager joiners would probably not be the last. These were no surprise candidates. Hungary has long been the steadfast sycophant of Germany. She was the first to climb aboard the Anti-Comintern Pact, and she was the first to gain territories with the help of the Axis. Rumania, at whose expense the more recent gains were made, joined because she had to. There were some 15,000 German soldiers garrisoned in Rumania last week as a grim guarantee of friendship. Most people thought of Slovakia as part of Greater Germany (actually the area...