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...First International had been formed in London in 1864, based on the famed Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels. But it had already died of talk. The Second International (founded in Paris in 1889) for which Lenin and Trotsky worked was a loose association of national labor organizations and Socialist parties, of which the Russian parties had the most revolutionary vigor...
Biggest Catch of all were copies of a Nazi manifesto, so inflammatory that authorities no longer described the suspects vaguely as fifth columnists (as such liable only to deportation) but as outright traitors involved in un caso de pis tola (a case for summary execution...
Boomed the manifesto: "Alert! Germans who have their country at heart! Argentines who would see their country as powerful as ours, instead of being weak and crumbling! You have sworn to keep a solemn oath! Hear our song of victory: 'Today Germany is ours and tomorrow the whole world will be ours.' . . . We expect you to imitate the example of your brothers in Holland and Belgium...
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...point of comedy. So when it was revealed last week that 13 British subjects had been arrested as spies, the nation had a spy scare which made U. S. alarm over the fifth column look like a bored yawn. The whole nation began snooping. The Army issued a manifesto urging cooperation "in purging Japan of all espionage." Newspapers published hints, threats, alarms. Someone suggested that a British oil company had an agent at every filling station. The dowdy Japanese-British Luncheon Club was accused of being a nest of spies. It was maintained that over 400 foreign educators were really...