Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happily, noise seldom conquers intellect so roundly elsewhere. Few communities have reached a point where book-burning is so popular, where men like Paul Hoffman are hissed into silence, and where UNESCO and the Comintern can be mentioned in the same breath without evoking general laughter. Nevertheless, the increasing popularity of extremism is no less discouraging for the localization of its success...
...kind of old Communist revolutionary who left talk about civil liberties, land reform and the like to the parlor set. At 27 he was a hard-bitten commissar in the regime of Hungarian Red Terrorist Bela Kun; at 28 he was in Moscow as a secretary of the Comintern Executive, perfecting methods for smuggling agents into foreign lands, and capturing control of trade unions...
...bodyguard to famed Communist Georgi Dimitrov. He wore a necktie for the first time in 1948, now as boss of Bulgaria takes pains to swear his "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin. Dimitrov, star of the Reichstag trial (1933), ex-Secretary General of the old Comintern, was the big man in Bulgaria's postwar days. Arriving from Moscow, he took over from homegrown Red Traicho Kostov, made Kostov his No. 2 man. Soon Kostov was accused of "anti-Sovietism," tried for treason. Persuaded to write a 32,000-word confession, at trial became the first major Communist defendant...
...Answer Yes or No." Subcommittee Counsel Robert Morris produced an I.P.R. report of a meeting in Moscow (1936) at which Lattimore conferred with top representatives of the I.P.R.'s Russian council. The Russians, Geographer V. E. Motylev and Comintern Veteran G. N. Voitinsky, discussed Pacific Affairs. Motylev asked for a "more definite line" in articles. According to the I.P.R. report: "[Lattimore] said he would like to meet the Soviet suggestion as far as possible ... If the Soviet group would start on such a line, he would be able to make [other councils] cooperate more fully...
...warned Moscow that Japan was planning to attack the U.S. and Great Britain in the Pacific. "The real cause for the Communization of China," said Willoughby, "is the long-range subversive operation, over the last two decades, conducted by professional Communists under orders of the Kremlin-controlled Third Comintern...