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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Cominform sent out another new message: all Communists should help set up forthwith a sweeping united front for "peace," cooperating with nearly all elements of the people, "regardless of politics."* A significant overtone gave a clue to what most worried the Cominform in the West: "Special attention should be...
The Wheel of History. The accused were twelve White Russian emigrès who had become Soviet citizens in 1946, when Stalin granted an "amnesty" to the White refugee colonies in China, France and Yugoslavia. The Russians had given Soviet passports to thousands of emigres, who, although antiCommunist, were tired...
At war's end, when foggy hope of cooperation between the democracies and Communism swirled everywhere, labor unions of 56 nations got together in Paris and set up the World Federation of Trade Unions. The organization included Soviet Russia's state-run "unions," big Communist-infiltrated unions like...
Because there was free speech at the London conference, there were disputes. Hardly had the honeyed addresses of welcome ended when some delegates charged that Roman Catholic unions on the Continent, which have their own federation (International Federation of Christian Trade Unions), were being excluded from the new organization. Reuther...
Asked by U.S. newsmen at U.N. last week what he thought of Pravda's editing, Vishinsky merely snapped: "The topic is exhausted." But a Russian engineer in Berlin cleared up the whole thing in a speech at the House of Soviet Culture. The moving of mountains is still only...