Word: cominterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned up in China, charged with purging the party of spies and dissidents, sent so many men to their deaths that he was known as "The Executioner." He first came to the U.S., according to the FBI, in 1933, as chief liaison man between the party and the Comintern. An obscure figure known only as Edwards, he was seldom seen by the party rank & file. He moved in & out of the country freely. (The House Committee held a passport application which demonstrated how the trick was turned. It was dated Aug. 31, 1934, bore the name of a Communist writer...
...opposition parties were finally permitted to hold a rally in a Sofia square, an inexplicable power failure (the Government controls all utilities) had left the square in darkness, the loudspeakers hushed. Meanwhile, at another rally of the free electorate (complete with loudspeakers) Georgi Dimitroff, onetime chief of the Comintern and head of Bulgaria's Communists, warned anyone considering voting against the Government party: "It is worth remembering the fate of Draja Mihailovich in Yugoslavia...
...Spotlight. It was Gerhart (he says) who got sister Ruth tossed out of the party in 1925 (she now edits an anti-Stalinist newspaper, which the Communists call "a gutter sheet"). Gerhart went on to Moscow, presumably as a reliable Comintern cog. From then on his role was that of many a Red agent-tours of duty in the Far East, in Spain with the Loyalists, back to Germany, then to France when Hitler rose to power. Eisler and his wife got out of France in 1941 on a U.S. transit visa, stayed in New York City when regulations blocked...
...queasy state of affairs between this nation and Russia has been the mutual distrust between our two nations. For Russia, this suspicion goes back to memories of an American expeditionary force in Vladivostok and years of non-recognition by this country. And, in the United States, distrust of the Comintern has flared up with new intensity in direct ratio to every instance of Russian obstructionism of Slavic temperamentalism in the United Nations. The principal problem of the Paris peacemakers has been to allay the fear and distrust between nations that is the legacy of World Wars...
...member of the Communist International's roving undercover political bureau; 3) in Vienna as a university student (Tito still speaks German with Vienna's sloppy accent); 4) in Switzerland; 5) in Moscow and Leningrad taking courses in partisan warfare at revolutionary finishing schools; 6) in Moscow, as Comintern representative of the Yugoslav Communists...