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...most far-reaching was the 8th (1919), which endorsed the Comintern as the export agency for worldwide Communist revolution, and adopted Lenin's creed that wars with capitalist states are "fatalistically inevitable." Even more dramatic was the 2Oth in 1956 at which Khrushchev 1) reversed Lenin by announcing that peaceful coexistence had become a fundamental principle of Soviet policy, and 2) in a six-hour, closed-session speech reviled Stalin as a "brutal, despotic" merchant of "moral and physical annihilation...
...being supported by Mrs. Roosevelt, I could not be more pleased by her kindness to me, even though both of us-together and separately-are often referred to as roving members of the Comintern by our local Grand Old Party's grand old press. As for the election, I expect to win it as surely as the fierce McKinley blood courses in my veins...
...little Comintern of the Western Hemisphere, Havana has also become a sort of branch office where Communists and their collaborators check in. Recent visitors to Havana range from Mexican Artist-Communist David Alfaro Siqueiros (see Mexico) to a couple of Costa Rican banana-union bosses who stopped in en route home from Moscow. The effect of this spreads all over the map. In Managua, Nicaragua, students rioted, burned the U.S. military attache's car, demanded that Roosevelt Avenue be renamed after Augusto Sandino, Yankee-hating Nicaraguan rebel of the '20s. In Ecuador, students and white-collar workers formed...
...Reds during a 1920 visit to Britain, where he studied under Clement Attlee at the London School of Economics. Deported, he returned to Japan and was in and out of jail until 1931, when he fled to Russia with his wife and became an executive member of the Comintern. In 1943. Nozaka was sent to join Mao Tse-tung in the Yenan caves as an adviser; at war's end he started back to Japan in a U.S. military transport plane. He was purged by General Douglas MacArthur for agitating against the Korean war, went underground, and surfaced again...
...than three decades the unquestioned leader of Italian Communism, he built the party into the largest outside the Iron Curtain, formed a leftist front that captured the votes of one of every three Italians. He had spent long years in Moscow, was a big wheel in Stalin's Comintern, won such confidence from the Kremlin that he was allowed to pursue his own "Italian line" of Communism. And he knew them all personally-Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Malenkov, Bulganin, Zhukov. All except...