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...appear shaven-headed in Thailand, disguised as a Buddhist monk; he would show up in the Latin Quarter of Paris, explaining to waiters how to prepare his food. In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China. In Singapore, Ho organized Southeast Asia's Comintern. And when IndoChina's Nationalist Party rebelled against the French in 1930, Ho Chi Minh played it coldly; although he was constantly posing as a Nationalist, Ho and his Reds stood aside and let the Nationalists die. "My itinerary is carefully prescribed," Ho Chi Minh once confessed. "You cannot...
...patriotic Norwegian cop named Asbjoern Brhyn worked with and came to like a tall, pale young Communist named Asbjoern Sunde. Sunde ran the Red underground mercilessly and effectively, never flinching at robbery, murders or bombings. He had already served his Communist apprenticeship as a courier in the Comintern maritime service and as a volunteer in the Spanish civil war. After the war, Communist Sunde became something of a hero for his underground activities, and his memoirs, Men in Darkness, became a bestseller. Then, inevitably, the two Asbjoerns drifted apart...
Died. Manabendra Nath Roy, 61, onetime member of the Moscow Soviet and a leading member of the Comintern's Second Congress (1920), later (1929) expelled from the party for right-wing deviationism; of cerebral thrombosis; at Dehra Dun, India...
...doomed them by persuading Moscow that they needed no arms, "because every Thuringian worker already has a rifle behind his stove." When untrue rumors began to drift to Moscow in the '20s about the intelligentsia, which had assumed command of the German party, Zinoviev, the boss of the Comintern, went to the files, found that all the adverse reports had been signed by Comrade Ulbricht. When Moscow decided in 1925 that the German party must be atomized so that it would be utterly obedient to the Kremlin, it was Ulbricht, under the pseudonym Zelle (Cell), who proceeded to chop...
Divorced. By André Marty, 66, a skull-breaking ringleader of French Communism for 33 years (and Comintern secretary 1935-43) until he was raked over the Kremlin's coals and expelled from the party last year for "fractionalism": Ray-monde Marty, 53 after five years of marriage; in Paris, after he testified that she walked out on him on Politburo orders...