Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confused, disputed, the Russian defeat before Warsaw had one plain effect on Russian intellectual life. Ranked as one of the decisive battles of the world, it changed Comintern policy, stopped plans to employ the Red Army to work with the European proletariat, forced Lenin to give up immediate hopes of world revolution, directed Comintern agitation to China and the Far East. Russians decided that they had underestimated Polish national aspirations, and nationalist ambitions everywhere; when Trotsky fell, the defeat was blamed on him, when Tukachevsky was purged, he was called responsible; latest official history of the Communist Party, the Mein...
Unfortunately for cigar-chewing Congressman Dies (last week he switched to gum), Witness Browder was under wraps. His pipe line to Moscow had failed to inform him of the Communazi non-aggression pact in time to prepare a U. S. explanation in keeping with Comintern ethics. Last week his explanation sounded like something out of a fairy tale: "It [the pact] caused dismay in Tokyo . . . broke the Axis . . . reopens the open door in China . . . lessens the danger, of Fascist penetration in South America . . . is one more step in reaching the Marxian ideal of Communism...
...hurried calls-on each other, on the Premier, on privy councilors, on the Emperor -which invariably accompany important Japanese decisions and invariably give rise to rumors that the Cabinet will fall. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, who had many a time publicly plumed himself on having accomplished the Anti-Comintern Pact, was busy word-swallowing; Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, who came to power last January because he had Fascist leanings, looked as if he would topple over when his leaning posts were suddenly withdrawn...
...Tolischus, forecast the agreement in detail. Soon after that hints of what was coming began to appear in the German press. Said the Volkischer Beobachter on May 26: "National Socialism does not war against a State because that State has a different content from our own. .. . The anti-Comintern pact does not strike primarily at the State, but ... at Bolshevism when it reaches out beyond Russian borders. . . . That is the German viewpoint and it also appears favorable to the Kremlin...
...still worse-treated minority, but by making the sporazum a big factor in Axis policy. Facing Germany and old Austria in the North, Italy across the Adriatic (and presently in Albania), with over 60% of her exports going to Germany and Italy, Yugoslavia stayed out of the Anti-Comintern Pact, turned down a British guarantee, pledged herself to maintain neutrality toward Italy and Germany in the event...