Word: cominterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most important act of the new Comintern: a proposal to organize an "Information Bureau," composed of two representatives from each of the central committees of the Communist Parties at the congress. Official purpose: "To organize and exchange experience and, in case of necessity, coordinate the activity of Communist parties on foundations of mutual agreement." Headquarters: Belgrade, conveniently close to the seething situations on the frontiers of Greece and Trieste...
What did the revival of the Comintern mean? It meant: 1) all-out Communist concentration against U.S. efforts to achieve economic and political peace in Europe, a new era of Communist power politics; 2) Russia's open reassumption of her place (dropped for tactical reasons during World War II) as leader of the world revolution; 3) intensifying of the battle of ideologies (Communism v. democracy), as a prelude to the battle of systems (Communism v. capitalism). The Comintern revival might also mean that Russia was tightening Communist organization for a series of imminent political (and perhaps military) actions...
From a superficial glance it may seem that the Kremlin has defeated its own purposes by resurrecting the Comintern. Not only have the Communists supplied powerful arguments to the backers of the despised Plan, but it may well be that they have weakened their influence in the countries of Western Europe still outside the Communist bloc. As the United States has painfully learned, national interest is often a more persuasive consideration than ideology. In countries where the majority of the people believe the Marshall Plan to hold the greatest hope for salvation, Communists stand to lose considerable numbers of adherents...
These statements were his undoing last week. Under persistent questioning, Eisler finally admitted that he had joined the German Communist Party in 1926, that he had visited Moscow at least three times, that he had once been the guiding spirit behind the Comintern's "international bureau of music." The conclusion was obvious that, whether now or in 1940, he had perjured himself. The committee therefore ended its three-day show by demanding that the Department of Justice 1) prosecute the composer for perjury, and 2) start deportation proceedings against...
...conviction on trumped-up treason charges. Petkoff, leader of the democratic Agrarian Party, was a patriot. He fought the Nazis and spent part of the war behind German barbed wire. After the Russians put the small Bulgarian Communist Party in power, Petkoff opposed the Communists led by the old Comintern agent, Georgi Dimitroff, hero of the Reichstag-fire trial...