Word: comintern
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...understand. Deleting the word "dyestuffs" from a list of products Russia could take from Germany, he explained: "Foodstuffs mean stuff for food and dyestuffs mean stuff for dying. I am not going to pass an insinuation that the Soviets will import poison gases from Germany." "Secretaryship of the Comintern" was suppressed on the ground that the Comintern had no Navy. A reference to the "Baltic Division of the Foreign Office" was censored because "there are no Soviet troops in the Baltic now-not even a battalion, let alone a division, and in any case the Red Army is not under...
...After the Nazi-Soviet pact orders from the Moscow Comintern made it the duty of Communists in every nation "to work for the collapse of resistance to Fascism in the interest of the Russian State, at whatever cost ... to themselves...
...Britain recognizes Franco Spain -which five weeks later joins the anti-Comintern powers...
...Gitlow, chairman), convened in deep woods near the village of Bridgman, Mich., with night sessions by torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...
...peril of Bolshevism," and the Count's speech reassured Italians that while Il Duce remains friendly with the Führer, the Rome-Berlin Axis is not going to be extended to Moscow. This was a plain intimation that Italy thought Germany had run out on the Anti-Comintern Pact. Moreover, the Italians were warned of the Russian-German treaty only two days before it was signed. "At 10 o'clock in the evening of Aug. 21, Ribbentrop telephoned me that he was going to Moscow on the 23rd to sign the pact of non-aggression between...