Word: comintern
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Palmiro Togliatti, son of a poor Genoese bookkeeper, who fled from Fascism in 1926; between foreign assignments for the Comintern (which included organizing the Garibaldi Brigade in the Spanish Civil War), he studied revolutionary strategy and wrote polemics in Moscow. He thrice escaped death (he was condemned to death by Mussolini, stabbed in Spain, shot at in 1948 in Rome). Shortly after U.S. troops invaded Southern Italy he flew to Naples, became leader of Italy's 2,283,000 Communists...
Walter Ulbricht, once a Leipzig woodworker, who became a Comintern agent during the Spanish Civil War, returned from Moscow to Germany with the Red army after the war, became Politburo member of Eastern Germany's Socialist Unity Party. Last month he stepped into the acting premiership of Eastern Germany when Premier Otto Grotewohl was reported ill. In imitation of Lenin, Ulbricht wears a trowel-like beard...
...work entirely underground; when known Chinese Communists are caught, they are deported. Siam's 30,000 Communist party members have no real leader, but the man most frequently tagged as their boss is slender, ferret-faced Ku Kip, a Chinese Communist veteran who saw service under notorious Comintern Agent Michael Borodin...
...became a Communist, spent years in jail for his revolutionary activities. Forced to flee Bulgaria in 1923, he first went to Vienna, later to Berlin. After the Reichstag trial, he became a Soviet citizen. As chief of the Comintern (1935-43), he propounded the Popular Front policy with extreme candor. "Comrades," he told the Comintern's 7th World Congress, "you recall the old legend of the Conquest of Troy . . . We revolutionaries should use the same strategy...
Immigration wanted more information on the stowaway. It got a hair-raising reply: "Re telegram 10th. Stowaway Gerhart Eisler, German, disembarking Gdynia." Was it the Gerhart Eisler-the chubby little Comintern agent who had been called the No. 1 U.S. Communist...