Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Hitler-Stalin pact, U. S. fellow travelers have fallen away in droves, but the Communist rank & file has hung on through every swing toward Hitlerism. Pondering these tenacious loyalists, a writer in the pinko Nation last week observed: "Genuinely perturbed by the defections around them, they calmly recite Lenin's prophecy: When the locomotive of history takes a sharp turn, only the steadfast cling to the train...
...destruction of Poland was secretly resolved in advance. . . . The Red Army entered Poland in its turn as a result of a secret pact. In reality, since August 23 an accord had been concluded between Germany and the Soviet Union for the dismemberment of Poland...
...under pressure of cracking weight. Leon Blum, the Socialist leader who three years ago gave France a brief "New Deal" as Premier, wrote in his Le Populaire: "I appeal to the Communist chiefs, and I adjure them once more-let them cry out to the country that their pact with Moscow is broken, that Stalin's stab in the back has freed them from their pledges, that all is finished between them and Moscow and that they are henceforth only French citizens, entirely free, that is to say having now no other duty and discipline than the common duty...
This was interpreted as a veiled warning that the Daladier Cabinet may soon outlaw the Communist Party altogether. Ever since the Hitler-Stalin pact was announced French Communist Deputies have been quietly resigning from the Party, hoping to keep their seats in the Chamber. The French equivalent of the American Federation of Labor, the C. G. T. (Confederation Generate du Travail) headed by Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux adopted a resolution which described Russia's gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat...
George Jessel, radio showman, disclosed a pact between him and James John ("Jimmie") Walker, nimble-witted onetime mayor of New York City, by which the survivor will deliver the other's funeral oration. Showman Jessel has spoken 50 eulogies in the last 15 years. Most memorable one, over the body of Broadway Comedian Jack Osterman last June: "Mr. God, they say you've got a great big heart, so give the boy a great big hand...