Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German-Russian pact crippled U. S. Communist and Nazi groups, just as the Communist Party was gaining its greatest influence as an anti-Fascist force, the Fascists as an anti-Communist force. ^ Not more than 1,000.000 U. S. citizens haye been seriously affected by essentially foreign or un-American activities. ^ The Communist Party is a "border patrol" of Russia, led, financed, dominated and directed by Russia for the benefit of Russia. U. S. workmen "have borne the brunt of the Communist efforts" and suffer most from them, but have resisted so successfully that only ten or twelve of some...
Report high lights: » The German-Russian pact crippled U. S. Communist and Nazi groups, just as the Communist Party was gaining its greatest influence as an anti-Fascist force, the Fascists as an anti-Communist force...
...crisis was a backbreaker for Swing. On Aug. 21, when the Russo-German pact popped, he wrote a searching 2,000-word analysis of its meaning in an hour and a half, from then on until war was actually under way stayed on the job virtually around the clock. His calm, unflustered shot-calling over this period, when the rest of radio was scaring up disjointed bulletins one-a-minute, won him the main body of his now enormous following. It also won him a sponsor, White Owl cigars...
From Russia's standpoint, the pact seemed at first a brilliant coup in the cynical game of power politics. It was expected that smart Joseph Stalin would lie low and let the Allies and the Germans fight it out to exhaustion, after which he would possibly pick up the pieces. But little by little, it began to appear that Comrade Stalin got something much more practical out of his deal...
...German hierarchy, after the heads of State and Army, is the country's mouthpiece. In title and theory, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels holds this position. But the Goebbels' star has fallen so far since the signing of the German-Russian pact that another man is rapidly moving into his spot. The usurper's official title is Reich Organization Director, Leader of the Labor Front; but as he moves towards No. 3, he becomes, more & more, spokesman of Nazi doctrine, utterer of slogans, salesman of ideas. The unfortunate pronunciation of his name is the same...