Word: cominterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best known pro-Russian was aging (74), independent Premier Juho Paasikivi, who said in a pre-election speech: "Our policy must never again be directed against the Soviet Union." Moscow's most ardent advocate was thirtyish, fiery-eyed Hertta Kuusinen, daughter of oldtime Comintern functionary, now high Soviet official Otto Kuusinen (who stayed in Russia). Hertta Kuusinen's instrument was that familiar Communist device, a Democratic Front-composed in Finland of Communists, small farmers and a splinter of the old Social Democratic Party, once the country's biggest. Chief anti-Russian was tough...
...geology professor and cousin of Count Paul Teleki, ex-Premier who committed suicide in April 1941. Notably absent was Hungary's top Communist, Matyas Rakosi, sixtyish, stout ex-commissar in the Communist Government of Béla Kun after World War I, later vice president of the Comintern. Rakosi presumably was in Moscow...
...Communist International (Comintern) was the central organization of all the world's Communist parties, with headquarters in Moscow. In deference to his Allies, Stalin abolished the Comintern. The Communist parties that composed it continue to function as before...
...Russian policy expects from the 'purges' what it expected in 1935-36 from the 'popular fronts' set up in several countries . .. [by] the Comintern. . . . The aim of the Comintern was to eliminate . . . politicians who were prone ... to act against the Soviet Union. . . . The Comintern has disappeared from the scene,* but not the purpose it tried to fulfill. . . . The Moscow policy is to make it impossible for an anti-Soviet coalition to develop in Europe and the rest of the world...
Sitting pretty in the Italian confusion was the Communist Party, led by shrewd, Comintern-trained Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti. Three months ago Moscow had taken the United Nations lead in recognizing the Badoglio Government. Then Togliatti had taken the lead in busting the Italian anti-Fascist front; he led liberals and leftists into the royalist Badoglio Government. In the Bonomi coup, Togliatti had shrewdly trimmed sails with the wind, cruised with the majority against the Marshal. This week, after raising a feckless fuss, Britain (and the U.S.) had to approve the Bonomi Government anyhow. Now the Communists, Italian...