Word: cominterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty-four-year-old Foreign Minister Erik Scavenius, whose signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact in Berlin last week provoked the Copenhagen riots, is Adolf Hitler's most efficient tool in Denmark. The son of a Court Chamberlain, he made his youthful diplomatic debut in Berlin, first became Foreign Minister in 1909 when he was only 32. Since then he has been Ambassador to Italy, Austria and Sweden, a leader of the pro-German Radical Party. Last July he organized the Danish Free Corps to fight Russia...
...Paris-the Marshal for the first time since the armistice-to meet "a high German personage" and sign away the rest of their country's freedom of action. In Berlin seven little Axis satellites (Finland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Rumania and Nanking) added their signatures to the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936, which was just a preliminary to the great European pact that Hitler was readying for Marshal Pétain's signature...
Warriors Forward. Gradually the military, and especially the Army extremists, made headway. In 1931 the Kwantung Army fomented the Manchurian Incident which led to the puppet state of Manchukuo. In 1936 the military got credit for the anti-Comintern Pact with Ger many. In 1937 the Army saved the Navy's disastrous Shanghai landing party. And for a while the Army's prestige skyrocketed with the China war, which later led to the longest stalemate in modern history...
...Wollweber was one of the ringleaders in the mutiny of the German Imperial Navy after World War I. Later, according to Jan Valtin's Out of the Night, he was a potent force in the underground organization of the Comintern...
...into the lining of a suitcase C"Astonishing numbers of undercover agents were on their way to South American states. The Communist Parties there were known to have strong anarchist tendencies. Moscow did not trust the Latin-American leaders out of sight, and therefore had them amply covered with Comintern supervisors.") While the U. S. was shaking its head over the crimes of Dillinger, Jan Valtin's Communists were ambushing and being ambushed on the Hamburg waterfront ("Seven young Nazis were on their way to distribute propaganda to the dockers at the harbor gates. . . . [The] crew sauntered up behind...