Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's Free Germany Committee came home to roost last week. The newborn German Communist Party met in Berlin and issued a manifesto setting forth the Party's program for the next step in Russian-occupied Germany. The program, whose moderation was startling chiefly to people who try to understand Communist behavior without understanding Communism, called for a popular front, parliamentary government and the unhampered development of private enterprise. The manifesto specifically...
Popular Front. The manifesto, which promptly received the blessing of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, administrator of the Russian occupation zone, was signed by Wilhelm Pieck, head of Moscow's former Free Germany Committee (TIME, Oct. 30) and a number of other German Communists who have returned from Russia or from concentration camps to take key jobs in the new German administration...
...Communists hoped that their manifesto would "serve as the basis for the formation of a bloc of antifascist, democratic parties." This popular-front tactic began to work at once. Members of the Social Democratic Party decided to cooperate with the Communist Party in a joint working committee of 20 to carry out the Communist program. Since the German Communists in the past have fought Social Democrats even more fiercely than they fought the Nazis, this was a historic handclasp...
...Colonial Government proclaimed martial law in Little Kabylia, sent out punitive columns of Foreign Legionnaires, Senegalese and Moroccan troops. Artillery and aircraft smashed native villages. The new Algerian nationalist party, Amis du Manifeste ("Friends of the Manifesto"), was outlawed, its leaders arrested. The old Parti Populaire Algérien, whose slogan is "Algeria for the Algerians," was carefully watched...
...times a grandee of Spain, the brittle old (66) blueblood was once a close friend of the late Alfonso XIII. Last week he resigned as Spain's Ambassador in London. This desertion of the shaky government of fat Francisco Franco came hard on the heels of the monarchist manifesto issued by the Spanish Pretender Don Juan (TIME, April 2). No one doubted that Alba-"Jimmie" to his British friends-would take a leading part in the royalist drive for power in Spain...