Word: dimitroff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never since World War II started has there been less gun-firing and more tongue-clattering than last week. One after another, high-calibre speechmakers like Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, George VI, Albert Lebrun, Georgi Dimitroff, Clement Attlee, the Pope, Viscount Halifax, the King of the Belgians, the Queen of The Netherlands, Neville Chamberlain plus generals, dopesters and yes-men sounded off, until old David Lloyd George complained that you did not ask who was winning the war nowadays, but who had said what...
...Comintern manifesto declared that "the ruling classes of Britain, France and Germany are waging war for world domination," while hotheaded Georgi Dimitroff, Bulgarian-born Secretary of the Comintern, scape-goat-elect of the Reichstag fire and personal enemy of Field Marshal Hermann Göring, adopted a "plague-o'-both-your-houses" attitude. In a signed article in the quarterly Communist International, Tovarish Dimitroff performed the neatest logical trick of the week: he called Germany the original aggressor in World War II, said that after the Nazis signed their famed non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union the aggressors...
...Nazi press chose to ignore the Comintern's attitude (although the U. S. S. R. had just been asked to take down Dimitroff's pictures), adopting the convenient fiction that the Third International does not necessarily represent the Kremlin. In London, on the other hand, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail gleefully headlined the Comintern's pronouncements: "Hitler takes a few more kicks from his friend Stalin...
...Comrade Dimitroff had singled out Italy especially as one of the countries which were "waiting the moment when it is clear which side will be victorious in order to join the stronger and pounce on the body of the defeated country to tear off their share." Next day the Fascist journalists struck back, led by Dictator Benito Mussolini's famed mouthpiece, Virginio Gayda. "If today Europe is fighting a war of imperialism and plutocratic interests," declared Signer Gayda, "Russia also is in it no less than other powers...
...Open Nights lecture program follows: Friday, Oct. 27, "How Astronomers Observe," by Dr. George Z. Dimitroff; Monday, Oct. 30, "Spectacular Stars," Dr. Dorrit Hoflleit; Wednesday, Nov. 1, "Meteorites, Cosmic Calling Cards," Dr. Fletcher Watson; and Friday, Nov. 3, "Powerhouses in Space, Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin...