Word: communists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was interpreted as a veiled warning that the Daladier Cabinet may soon outlaw the Communist Party altogether. Ever since the Hitler-Stalin pact was announced French Communist Deputies have been quietly resigning from the Party, hoping to keep their seats in the Chamber. The French equivalent of the American Federation of Labor, the C. G. T. (Confederation Generate du Travail) headed by Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux adopted a resolution which described Russia's gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat...
...totalitarian States. Its Sejm, or Parliament, looked feeble compared to London or Washington. But it was Jeffersonian compared to the drilled and subservient Parliaments of Moscow, Rome and Berlin. Its foreign policy looked a little shifty, but it was clear as a brook compared with the secret diplomacy of Communist and Fascist States. Its finances looked troubled-but not in comparison with Germany's blocked marks and Russia's financial somersaults. Poland subsidized no agents to pose as friends of the workingman in foreign countries; except for its desperate seizure of Teschen when Germany dismembered Czecho-Slovakia...
Fascist Germany had the rebuilding of 15 years of Republican Germany to take advantage of when Fascists seized power; Poland's rulers inherited ruins. Communist Russia had immeasurably vaster resources to begin with, and her rulers had the total confiscated wealth of the nation. But when Poland was set up at the end of World War I the area it took over had lost...
...Army soldiers, while the business of shelling LwÓw was taken over by Soviet artillery. In the week's only show of cross-purposes between Berlin and Moscow, Nazi newsorgans claimed that LwÓw actually fell before the besiegers withdrew, but there seemed little doubt that Communist papers were right in reporting that Russians captured LwÓw. On its whole broad drive into Poland, the Red Army reported taking 120,000 Polish prisoners, capturing 380 pieces of artillery, 120 airplanes...
...population tears down Polish flags and replaces them with Soviet flags. . . . Peasants offered the Red Army the traditional bread and 'salt [tokens of brotherhood] on embroidered towels and invited Red Army men into their houses." So said Tass, the official Soviet news agency. As the week advanced, Communist cohorts from Moscow poured in after the advancing Red Army, brought 100,000 portraits of Stalin, Lenin and Marx, tons of "educational leaflets." In each town and village, soviet municipal rule was set up under councils of men and women of the proletariat. Thus at Barszczewo the new town soviet...