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After sneering openly at Democratic governments since the Russian Revolution of 1917. the Comintern or World Union of Communist Parties executed in Moscow last week a sudden about-face. Hitherto the duty outside Russia of every Communist has been to cripple his country's war-time forces and if possible foment a revolution while fighting men are at the front. Joseph Stalin created a sensation this spring by a statement to French Premier Laval which seemed to mean that French Communists should support the French Army, an unprecedented heresy from the Old Bolshevik point of view (TIME...
Attended by 200 secretaries, 400 Communist Party delegates from 50 countries arrived importantly in Moscow last week for the first Congress of the Comintern in seven long years. Its constitution defines the Comintern as "a union of Communist parties of all countries into one proletarian party, which fights for the establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, for the creation of a World Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for the complete destruction of classes and the achievement of Socialism-that first stage of the Communist society." Since many of the 400 delegates are furtive persons, wanted by the police...
Only foreign Communist in Moscow who dared to come out into the open was ailing William Z. Foster, onetime Communist candidate for President of the U. S. Though bedded in a Moscow hospital, Comrade Foster contributed a piece to the newsorgan of the Comintern. He urged all U. S. well-wishers of the World Revolution of the World Proletariat to enter a new misleadingly named "Workers' Party" and try to mislead as many workers as possible into thinking it is not identical with the Communist Party...
Thus Communist propaganda will continue to be fomented in the U. S. by the U. S. Workers' Party whose avowedly Communist leaders will continue their close liaison with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Comintern, Third International or World Communist Party which is technically superior to both and retains its Moscow headquarters. On the other hand, M. Litvinoff promised that "it will be the fixed policy of the Government" of Russia (he could not promise for the Party headed by Josef Stalin) to "refrain" in the most scrupulous manner from any interference in U. S. affairs...
...Workers' Party" (Communist) which persisted in announcing during the New York mayoralty campaign that one of its main objectives is "Militant support of the Soviet Union!" Finally in Moscow last week the inopportune death of cackling, seamy-skinned Comrade Sen Katayama, 74-year-old Japanese member of the Comintern Executive Committee, forced Dictator Stalin to make open display of the fact that he is still pro-Comintern (i.e. pro-World Revolution), despite his resignation from the Comintern Committee...