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ON THE LEFT… c. b. r.

Cominform Revived. Last September there were reports from Moscow that the Cominform (formerly the Communist International) was to be disbanded. During their recent Indian visit, however, Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Russian Communist Party chief Nikita S. Khrushchev announced that the Cominform would be maintained. It is not surprising, therefore, that the American Communist Party, along with thirty-two other foreign Communist parties, was represented at the second congress of the Rumanian Workers (Communist) Party held in Belgrade in December. Present along with the American observers were General Chu Teh, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Government; Matyas Rakosi, Premier of Hungary; Tudor Zhikov, first secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party; Giovanni Roveda of the Italian Communist Party; Senora Dolores Ibarruri (La Passionaria) of the Spanish Communist Party; Vaclav Kopecky, Deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia; and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, secretary of the Rumanian Communist Party. American Reds certainly mingled with the international Big Shots, but how did they get their passports, if any?

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ON THE LEFT… c. b. r.

Cominform Revived. Last September there were reports from Moscow that the Cominform (formerly the Communist International) was to be disbanded. During their recent Indian visit, however, Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Russian Communist Party chief Nikita S. Khrushchev announced that the Cominform would be maintained. It is not surprising, therefore, that the American Communist Party, along with thirty-two other foreign Communist parties, was represented at the second congress of the Rumanian Workers (Communist) Party held in Belgrade in December. Present along with the American observers were General Chu Teh, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Government; Matyas Rakosi, Premier of Hungary; Tudor Zhikov, first secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party; Giovanni Roveda of the Italian Communist Party; Senora Dolores Ibarruri (La Passionaria) of the Spanish Communist Party; Vaclav Kopecky, Deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia; and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, secretary of the Rumanian Communist Party. American Reds certainly mingled with the international Big Shots, but how did they get their passports, if any?