Word: comintern
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...Moscow's wary, cautious eye, Bulgaria's ambitious Premier and ex-Comintern Boss Georgi Dimitrov and Yugoslavia's restless, bellicose Marshal Tito were pedaling too far and too fast...
...unwelcome guests: Novelist Howard (Freedom Road) Fast, an editor of the Communist New Masses; Communist Gerhart Eisler, reputed U.S. Comintern boss; Arnold Johnson, legislative director of the Communist Party; Carl Marzani, dismissed by the State Department for concealing his Communist card...
...Parliament in Manchester, but she declined. She joined the Communist Party and left for Moscow, there married a Soviet government employee she had met in England. It was in Moscow that she bought her first corset. Into it she stuffed the secret dispatches entrusted to her by the Comintern to deliver to the Chinese Communists...
When the Russians marched into Rumania in August 1944, Ana was among them, in a Red Army officer's uniform. She became boss of the Rumanian Communists, co-founder of the revived Comintern and one of Stalin's most trusted lieutenants in the Balkans, ranking with Tito and Bulgaria's Georgi Dimitroff...
Rivera and Siqueiros once went to Moscow to attend a Comintern session. On the German ship coming home they began arguing: Siqueiros was for Stalin, Rivera was for Trotsky. No one else on the boat understood Spanish, but they all stared fascinated at the table where the two men sat, meal after meal, fighting it out with high words and bitter tears. Finally the two asked for separate tables and Rivera, shaken by the fury of the quarrel, took to his bunk. Says Siqueiros, "When we reached Veracruz there were two delegations at the pier. One was composed of Rivera...