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Just a year ago Germany and Japan entered into a notably loose treaty against the Comintern, or international federation of Communist Parties, which promotes the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" (TIME, Nov. 30). This treaty is carefully drawn so that technically it is not directed against Russia, and for that matter Russia is not technically behind the Comintern-these two transparent subterfuges nicely balancing each other. Last week in Rome, while Moscow was celebrating Bolshevism's 20th birthday as a State (see above), a peculiar ceremony was performed. It did not suit II Duce simply to bring Italy...
...Every few months Dictator Stalin is rumored to have all but abandoned the Communist struggle to foment from Moscow revolution in other lands. Recently the offices near the Kremlin of the Comintern or official Moscow bureau for fomenting the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" were closed, and not until last week did Moscow correspondents rediscover the Comintern occupying magnificent new quarters overlooking Moscow on the Lenin Hills. Divided into three five-story buildings connected by three-story sections, the colossal new quarters for fomenting World Revolution comprise just over 1,000 rooms...
...German Ambassador had a long talk. From this Herr von Ribbentrop drove directly to Croydon, flew to Berlin and there signed for the German Government its treaty with the Japanese Government uniting these powers against Communism and the World Revolution of the World Proletariat fomented by the Comintern from Moscow. With deliberate Japanese-German irony this pact is not directed against the Soviet Union, only against Moscow's Communism...
Thus the world's appetite was whetted for what should be a masterpiece of international word-wangling, combining plausible ideas of the French Popular Front, the Comintern of Moscow, plus Largo Caballero and Rosenberg. Wiseacres agreed that Premier Largo Caballero will most likely reply that he "stands for Democracy...
Indirectly Sir Samuel implied that the Moscow Comintern was behind this naval sabotage and in retort the House's lone Communist was loud in denying that the British Communist Party would ever take inhumane steps against the British Royal Navy such that "seamen might drown!'' Sabotage by British Reds, he insisted, is purely political...