Word: comintern
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...Soviet Government broke a peace it had long preached and plunged into the kind of a war it had time & again decried had many explanations and many puzzles. Perhaps the Kremlin feared an anti-Comintern peace in the West-a peace in which Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain would join together against the U.S.S.R.-and was merely strengthening Russia's land and sea approaches against the day when the "land of workers and peasants" would have to be defended unto death. Another theory was that Dictator Stalin was determined to restore to his country the lands that belonged...
MOSCOW--The Soviet Government tonight officially repudiated as "not in accordance with Soviet policy" an article in the Communist International, official organ of the Comintern, advising Rumania to agree immediately to a mutual aid pact with the Soviet Union...
...indignant editorial in the Comintern newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") usually denotes the Soviet Government's extreme annoyance, one in the Government-owned paper Izvestia ("News") indicates growing impatience, an official protest demonstrates complete exasperation...
...peculiarly Chinese maneuver, the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee summoned Generalissimo Chiang as President of the Executive Yuan (Premier) again, reducing Premier H. H. Kung to vice president. Then it issued a four-point manifesto, the most emphatic point of which was a refusal to join any anti-Comintern agreement...
...Nazi press chose to ignore the Comintern's attitude (although the U. S. S. R. had just been asked to take down Dimitroff's pictures), adopting the convenient fiction that the Third International does not necessarily represent the Kremlin. In London, on the other hand, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail gleefully headlined the Comintern's pronouncements: "Hitler takes a few more kicks from his friend Stalin...