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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What moved Joe Stalin and his Earl Browder to doff their democratic whiskers was the Russo-German pact and the consequent reaction against the U. S. S. R., in which Franklin Roosevelt shared last week (see p. 15). The Browder speech last week was the first realistic thing which he and his party have done since the Stalin & Hitler marriage of convenience. But Browder and friends, free again to take up their old cries of international class war, down-with-capitalism, etc., were not in an altogether happy position. To portray Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime as the flower...
Meanwhile, in the U. S. S. R. Bolshevists staged a bang-up three-day celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the Communist revolution. The Communist Third International blasted forth with a strident manifesto which called upon workers of the world to unite and "go against those who favor continuation of imperialistic war." Nothing wrong was found with Nazi Germany, but the manifesto singled out for special tongue-lashings the U. S., which "repeals the embargo on the export of arms to secure huge profits to the kings of the munitions industry"; Britain and France, for "keeping half the world...
...this were not enough wordage for one day, Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov elaborated on the same theses in an address in the Moscow opera house. He specially re-emphasized Russian neutrality, U. S. S. R.'s "policy of peace." Meantime, Finland, further tightening her defenses, clapped on mail censorship, cut off foreign telephones, waited to see if peaceful Russia would be as good as her protestations (see below...
Last week Mexico forgot war for the nonce as the P. R. M. (Party of the Mexican Revolution) convened to choose a candidate for next July's presidential election, and to build him a platform. Usually the selection of a P. R. M. candidate is all that is needed to assure his election...
...agrarian program, nationalization of oil, etc. Normally an opposition nominee has about as much chance in a Mexican election as a dray horse in a sulky race, but Candidate Almazán has picked up much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once last week before it nominated President Lázaro Cárdenas' favorite, a popular oldtime fighter who subdued the Catholic rebellion of 1928 and the Cedillo revolt last year, onetime Minister of National Defense General Manuel Avila Camacho. Since January...