Word: cominterns
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...deceptively simple to poke fun at Barnes' announcement. Any man who piously asserts his "considered opinion" to be that the "re-establishment of the Comintern . . . and its increased efforts within this country have created a situation fraught with danger to the Commonwealth" is making himself a broad target for board witticisms. But to laugh off Barnes' who successfully sponsored a highly restrictive labor bill last fall, is to ignore a man capable of exerting considerable influence to ends that actually are fraught with danger...
...Extraordinary & Infamous." The Kremlin feels that it must change the minds of Italian (and other) workers even if that means taking away the spaghetti. Moscow's Pravda made that point clear when it devoted two pages to an explanation of the Little Comintern by Andrei Zhdanov...
Pravda had previously tried to play down the Little Comintern, brushing it off as a mere information bureau. Zhdanov, however, is one of the five top men of Russia and the prime mover in the Little Comintern reorganization, and should know more about it than Pravda. He said that the group was brought into being because the "open expansionist program of the U.S. is reminiscent of the extraordinary and infamous defeated program of Fascist aggressors." General Zhdanov clearly connected the Little Comintern with the main line of Soviet policy. The line itself he expressed with great clarity...
Bread was a powerful weapon in the New Comintern's fight on the Marshall Plan. The Soviet Union had already committed itself to distribute 850,000 tons among Eastern European satellites-Czechoslovakia (400,000), Poland (300,000), Finland (150,000)-plus unknown amounts to Rumania and Bulgaria. There were also hints of Soviet grain for France, Belgium, Norway in exchange for industrial machinery...
...France Is Threatened." This Communist behavior, matched on the international scene by the emergence of the Belgrade Comintern, had a great deal to do with the election results. It had helped persuade 6,000,000 Frenchmen that De Gaulle spoke the truth when he cried, two weeks ago in Algiers...