INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENTS

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SECTIGN B
PtT I Travel
P.RT II Index by Destination
LECTIGN C
:,,DpEii11~.
UECTIGN D
List of ibbreviations
b CTIGN E
Alrhabetical Name Index
I'agas i - iv
ages 1 - 36
Pages 37 - 96
rages 97 - 99
Pages 100 - 1o6
l=ages 107 - 108
P--ges 109 126
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aV'I'ROLUCTION
This thivd issue of the series ulnternational Corrmu.nist
;ovcr.entsu covers the period 1 September 19!x8-1 January 1949,
Individual travel movements occurring in the preceding period
but reported too late for inclusion in the first and second
issues are listed under the individual's name in Section B.
1s.ddenda to the meeting sections of the first and second issues
are appended to this report in Section C. abbreviations are set
out in Section D, an alphabetical name index covering the period
1 Januy 1948 - 1 January 1949 is appended in Section Ea
1, National Party Congresses continued to be held at the
rate of at least one per month., Tae -Polish and Bulgarian Congresses
carried out the program for Party solidification and absorption of the
Socialist Parties which began to take shape in the satellite orbit
early in 1948 and continued taroughout the year - the Unity Congress
of Socialist and Communist mrties, Rumania, February 1948: unity
Congress of Socialist and Corrjunist Farties, Hungary, June 1948,
dith the 9th Congress of CP Czechoslovakia slated for 1.,y 1949, and
with the broad cu ;lines of Iarty policy fixed, no P tional Party
Congresses can be normally expected in the Soviet satellite area
until 1950 - according to Party statutes, National Congresses are to
be convoked every- two years.
In the immediate future, then, non-satellite, ranking Party
leaders will no longer be able to travel into the satellite orbit as
delegates to National Congresses where they i y unobtrusively and
securely meet with Soviet representatives - the Union Congress of
Polish :'Workers Parties, e.g, was attended by representatives from
almost every European Party, CP Brazil, CP Israeli, and by
CPSU representatives. Instead, they may, in the future, either attend
meetings of international front organizations in the satellite area, or,
which is more likely , simply travel individually without any ostensible
purpose, as they have done in the past (see below, under B).
The Party Congresses held in the current period bring the number
of those held in the entire yeas .tb'fifteen, most. of which (11) were
convoked_-by European Parties - Italy; January-194b; Rumania, February 1948;
Great Britain, February 1948; Sweden, May 1948; Belgium, May 1948;
Hungary, June 1948; Finland, September 1948; mustria, October 1948;
i>lbania, November 1948; Poland, December 1948; Bulgaria, December 1948.
The Far East was represented by one Congress (India, February-
Larch 1948), and Latin America by two (Venezuela, august 1948; Cuba,
November 10,48). (The 5th National Congress of CP Yugoslavia, July 1948,
was not attended by foreign delegates, and is therefore not significant
in this context),
Considering the fact that several major Party Congresses were
held in Europe in 1947 (e.g, Great Britain, February, March 1947; France,
June 1947), the first round of European postwar Party Congresses has been
generally completed in 1948, with the exception of minor Parties (e.g.
Denmark; Iceland, Luxembourg, Trieste) and underground parties (Spain,
Greece)? .z few Parties (Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Hungary, Sweden)
even convoked their second biennia! Congress since the end of tae wars
Hc.Fever, it is not surprising that the European picture is not duplicated
in other continents - in the Far Last CP China has been pre-occupied with
the civil war, and the other Parties are largely illegal or semi-legal.
The status of many Parties in Latin nerica has been precarious, and the
Parties of the Middle East are similarly exposed to police pressure,
Indications are tort the CPSU may convoke its 19th Party Congress
in 1949 - the 11th Komsomol Congress and the 10th Trade Union Congress
have already been convoked. If forecasts are accurate the Congress bf
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CPbU will be a major event, It will be interesting to see whether
foreign delegates -1-Till be invited to attend - we are not aware of
any precedents in the past, and our guess is that satellite Parties
but no other foreign Parties will be representeds in order to avoid
the impression t .a-t non-satellite Parties are Soviet controlled,
2. Regional eetings occurred more frequently in the current,
than in the previous periods. It may be that the Parties are heeding
the call of the Cominform for "closer co-operation" - since the
founding conference in 1947 the Cominform as well as the Soviet press
has overtly advocated a policy of greater inter-Party co-ordination.
a. Europe The conference of Scandinavian Communists
(Gslo, September 1918) apparently grew out of a similar
Scandinavian Conference in Gnlo, February 1948 (see Inter-
national Communist Movements, 1 January - 1 L-y 1;48) and
similar meetings ;raa, be expected for the fture, If further
information is received, it ray become some,-.hat clearer
whether or not the 'Corinform" is organizing the radicalization
of Scandinavian Parties by w;,-ay of supporting the "intcrnaticna.l-
ict" fractions, and to what extent Sca.nd.inavi-n P,--r t4 eS are
building-up a clandestine action (sabotage) app::ratus, Roald
Halvorsen (CP NorwaJ) ryas reported absent from the conference -
he was in Prague, allegedly to confer with a Cominform official,
However,-w;hile his trip to Prague is confirmed, the question
whether he talked to Co-L',-inform functionary rem ins open -
he may have conferred with a Soviet representative instead,
b, tSlRs The most important regional meeting in the
satellite orbit eras the meeting of satellite leaders with
Stalin at Sochi (wept 48), Previous doubts whether the
meeting; was held are no longer valid, although no first
hand reports on the meetings exist, informed guessers claiming
that the establishment of closer economic ties was cn the
a enda, have been proven right - the establishment of a. Soviet-
satellite Economic Council at a similar meeting in Moscow (January 49)
probably Ties discussed at Sochi,
c, Latin "'marica. The meeting in bsxico (Sept 48) is noteworthy
in connection with other reports claiming that the Latin rimeriean Parties
are planning to set up Federations on the model of the regional organizations
favored by the Comintern, The Parties of Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia
have been mentioned specifically as future partners of a Federation. There
is nothing particularly "illegal" in this possible revival of a traditional
pattern - it may be merely an organizational formalization and intensification
of already existing connections, Further, it is by no means definite yet
whether Federations have been created. More concrete evidence is needed,
3. Participation of foreign delegates at meetings of a Central Committee
has been illustrated again by the presence of a delegate of GP France at the
session of the CC/CP iJ,lgeria (Oct 48). ';de recorded a similar case in mpril
1948 (see "International Communist Movements, 1 January - 1 May 1948") when
foreign delegates attended the meeting ,of a sub-commission of CC/CP France,
Paris. T-c current case further illustrates how a colonial Party is controlled
by the mother Party, in this case, CP islgeria by OP France via a delegate from
the French CC.
4. Cominform meetings have been reported en masse, and are included
in the current report as "rumored" in order to emphasize that information
concerning a Cominform meeting should be scrutinized very carefully - none of
the v rious "rumored" Ccminforr meetings have been confirmed, and it is not
believed that they took place. There are various pitfalls in reporting a
Coninfor,_ meetinT, the basic error being that the Cominform is still over-
estimated as an international organization There is no reliable evidence
showing that the Cominform is more than an editorial office which publishes
a newspap.r?. Cn the contrary, there is reliable evidence showing that the
Cominform is not an international organization of clandestine significance.
There is therefore no reason to expect frequent "Cominform meetings" - the
fact that at the June 1948 meeting the resolution against CP Yugoslavia was
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made, signifies merely that the Cominform was used, as a publicity
medium for a decision actually made by CF: a before this meeting.
It is probable that "Cominform meeting" will again be used to
a,-ounce "n imn h e. ica organizational decision
previcusly made by CF1U, but such an occasion may not arise more
often than once or twice a year, if at all,
.inothcr error, made freguentl; by sources cf iinformation,
consists in the tagging of "normal" Party -etings as Cominform
sessions. Journalists often receive no's that a Communist leader
is supposed to go into the satellite.-area, and jump to the
conclusion that a Cominform.meetina is afoot; Professional
informants take up such rumors, and, peddle the "ne-,is." ~',nti-Soviet
propagandists often fabricate similar "information." It is there-
fore a_bsclutely essential to known the exact origin of the
information -only sources _L ;,4 extreeiely reliable and high-level
connections should: be accepted,
5. ibetinps of Front anizctions account for about half of the
meetings listed - the usual ratio', ','FDY and its affiliates were
:_:cst :cove, In the , .ke of the '7crld Co.gress of intellectuals for
Peace and Demiocracy, '.Varsalw, Poland, august 19L:.6, several new national
fronts appeared in order to re-inforce the Communist "peace offensive,"
e.g.,
National Congress for the Defense of Peace and Freedom, 24 November
1948, Paris.
Intellectual Literary Congress for Peace, originally slated
for January 1949 ini--exico City, but apparently postponed,
Roberto Pbrena (CP Brazil), Enrique lil Gilbert (CC/CP Ecuador)
and Juan ?:crinello (President/PLF Cuba) .'e extensive tours of
Latin :.merica in order to org.nize the congress,
+orld Congress for Peace, scheduled for February, 1949 in New
York.
6. The following meetings are already scheduled for 1949:
19 January 1949 - Intellectual and Literary Congress for Peace;
P.-Mexico City
Early 1949 - LEA. Wol:en's Conference, Calcutta, India
Early 1949 - National Congress of +omrn, Havana, Cuba
Early 1949 - National Congress CP Norway, Oslo
February 1949 - World Congress for peace, New York
24 February 1949 - 11th Komsomol Congress, Nbsc.ow
19 April 1949 - 10th Congress of Trade Unions, Tvbscow
25-29 My 1949 - 9th Congress CP Czechoslovakia, Prague
Summer 1949 - World Congress of '.VFDY, Paris (?)
July 1949 - 6th National Congress 1C, Colombia.
B, TRAVEL
Recurrent and reliable reports to the effect that non-satellite
Comminists meet Soviet representatives most frequently in Prague and
Warsaw to receive instructions, are supported indirectly by movements
reflected in the destination index (see Section B, part 2)s
Praguet During the period covered, the following foreign Communist
leaders came. to Prague without any ostensible connection with a
Party meeting or an international meetings
CF Frances GACHIN and i, TY (#160, 168)
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OP Greece- GROZO5, RGUSS0S, V=I 5, ZACHARIJiDES
(#198, 205, 207, 209)
GP Italyg BERLINGUER (F226), G. PA EPA (72229),
PAL LD (#230)
CP Norway- H LVOREEN, Roald (#255)
CP Netherlands: DE GRGGT (#249)
CP Luxembourg: UNY (#241)
Further, Prague figured again as a stopover for trips
to lvioscow . see the record of two Latin-American
Communists, ECHEVERRIA;, Rafael (Ecuador, #136) and ON,
Carlos Augustus (Venezuela, #367)
'Jarsaw; During the current period; the heavy influx of
foreign Communists explains itself by the fact of their
attendance at the Union Congress of Polish Workers Parties
(December 1948),
2, Axis figures large again as a destination point, but
most of the trips can be explained, at least superficially, b: the
attendance of meetings. Individual travel from Latin America, not
connected with meetings, was very light (see r58, 84, 85, 86, 87).
3. Heavy traffic to unRary and Lb ico can be accounted
for by Party and Trade Union meeting
:cvements of leading foreign Cor?uniits into the US' R,
with the exception of the Sochi meeting, could not be detected
reliably, on the basis of available evidence, As usual, VGKS
arranged tours through the US;:.R, but, main, there is no evidence
indicating that these tours were connected ^ith Party business,
Confirmation and further information is requested on the following
trave items;
Austria #;21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28
Bolivia '#50-
Brazil 1,52, 54, 57
Chile #69, 70
Colombia r84, 85, 86, 87
Cuba x-97, 98
Czechoslovakia #115, 122, 124
Denmark #131
Hungary t,211
Norway 1255
Philippines #267
Rumania #277, 278
,pain #289, 298, 299, 300
Sweden #304
Uruguay #317
Yugoslavia #382
Unknown #385
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first I peek
of ;ept 481
Meeting
ceional Conference
Rerrrecentatives of
Cr Luxembourg and
CP Netherlands
4 wept 48 Fete de l'Humanite
(sponsored by CP France
Delegates
Netherlands (probably Luxembourg - Grandjenet, Joseph (Exec Comm,
nmsterdam) Deputy)
Paris (Vincennes),
France
Belgium - Chappar, idolphe
Covias (and w,vife)
Dewit, Francois
Doetsch, Jacobus
Gregoire, Suzanne
Lambert, Eva
Lechein, Georges
wudlriaux, fnu
Raindorf, iron (and mistress
:ie rmanue )
Re;ynders, aariette
ucmville, Julia
:truelens, Christian (wife of
Ivor cus)
gtruelens, hhrcus
Trimborn, Ly dic
Vanderlinden, Jules
allegedly discussed closer cooperation
among the Benelux CDs, particularly
regarding trade union activities and
their efforts to carry out simultaneous
strikes and denanstrations in all three
countries. Grandjenet (ostensibly
attending Congress of ,btalworkers)
presented these plans to Berend Blokzijl
(Chairman of EVC), Unconfirmed,.
The Belgian delegation stayed at
Metropole and Terminus Hctels, Thorez,
Cachin, and Duclos put in an appearance
but no French OP official met the Belgian
delegation at the station which caused a
great deal of coracnt. Delegation left
for Brussels evening of -5 kept 48..
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4 or 5 Sent 481 :t~icnal Conference of
Sweden)
(Dcn-.cork, Nor-,%,a-,y and
Delegates
Tor?;ay Digernes, Ivar (trained in IR
F~irubotn, Feder (former Sec Gen
Hansen, Mrs~ Aase
Hansen, Lrvid G. (Exec Coeui)
Langsreth, Haavard (Political
Off ice)
Njaa, .ksel
utove, fnu
Van der Lippe, Just (CC)
Svr:.den - Leurlin , Per N;r Dug
youth leader)
Strand, Senja (N, Dac
writer,
clerk)
Three meetings were held with the purpose
of final discussions on .nthods of aligning
Scandinavian C-orunist Parties ;rich the
Coninform. The group allegedly met without
the knowledge of other members of their
respective parties ,hose "nationalist vieras~
were in Conflict with this pro-Cominform
group.
The meetings were expected to decide definite
policy with regard to the Cominform, but
final action was postponed because of the
failure of Roald Halvorsen (Vice-chairman,
CP Nor,;ay) to return from Prague, where
he allegedly went to receive directives
pertinent to Zcsndinavian membership in the
Ccminfcrm.
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:eating
3rd International Congress,
International ~.secciation of
Democratic iar..yers
France - CasEin, Rene (VP/estate Council)
Nordma nn, Joe
Holland - Etokvis, Dr. Benno J. (Communist
delgete/_tates Gen)
Pcland- Chojn, Leon (Vice .inister Justice)
Rumania - Balaceanu (PL.rachivescu TT)
Fanu, Gheorghe
Raiciu, Ion (,inister to Poland)
UN - Kenny, Hobert 'r.
Popper, Irtin
,`tendard, 'illiam L.
nrtimenkov, L. I.
Dcrisov , z. I,
i;okarov, ~.. Y o
Nedbailo, -, P. n
Trainin, r~. N. (,'.cud .,cience,
Institute of Law)
Zcy dire, F. L. (Vice minister)
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Bran Den Van Len Rooth (attorney
General) (TS)
gut, Czcchoslcvakia Belgium -
On the agenda of the Ccngress sere;
1, Righ is of man
2, Combating propaganda for a new war
3. Punishment of war trim i nnls .
The group passed a resolution to send a
delegation of la~;,-~ crs to defend the t:elvc
rericen Com inist leader's who .'ere
recently indicted by a grand jury for
subversive activity, The Congress followE
the party line with the usual harangues
against "the Capitalist ;;ar-mongers" and
imperialism.
The following officers of the Internation.
, .ssociation of De:ocratic Le.:;yers wore
elected:
President - Rene Cessin (France), reelectE
Vice-president - Robert Kenny (U`)
General becretarry - Martin popper (UL)
Note; Not all delegates were Conreunists.
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Race Delegates
8_14 dept 48 'Far East Co .inform
ecting ryongyeng, North Korea! Unidentified representatives from:
C, .
_ lnu
Japan
North Korea
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8-21 dept J.8! 3rd session of xecutive Paris, France i Uc R - Kuznetsov, V. U. (Fred, nUCC U,
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This is the second report to be received
r..enticnin,J North Korea as the .eeeting
place for a Ncpter,ber session of the Far
East Coiainform However, other reports
have a.enticned Harbin, idanchuria, as the
location oi,..a__rieeting and one described
a June ieeting. at Khabarovsk, UE.R. It
is possible that sale type of regional
meetings have been tagged as Co.-inform
sessions. In vic-.~ of the confusion about
meting places, the reported designation
of T cngyang as headquarters for the Far
Last Cor.:infcrm is also open to questiol;Le
It i s decided to hold an international
students festival in the sur.or of l49
under the banner "The Unification of the
Democratic students for the -tru;gle for
ieace",
Grganizations fror.-I Iraq and horthern Korea
were - dr-:itted to the IU', but 1.ustrian
and Canadian groups were refused admittance
as "under-_ocratic",,
Josef Grobman (Czech) was reelected
ices of IUD,,
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Date ; Ieeting
10-20
48
Place Delegates
17th Congress of
International hlliance
of Cooperatives
Prague, Czechoslovakia unidentified delegates from:
Czechoslovakia
India
Italy
uwitzerland
UL ,ER - ;idorov, l,ikolai (Deputy
Chairman of Chentrosoyuz)'
11 wept 48 Meeting of VVY (Lca'ue.of Berlin, Ger a_y
Nazi P:rsocutees), called
by International Federation
of For,or Political
Prisoners.
around Ru:iored meeting of "Comintern
17 _,cpt 48 gc nts" and Trade Union
Leaders
Germany- - Kuehne, Ctto (Ilk- Central
..d,-_inistraticn for Transport),
UuLR - iuznotsov, V. (hUCCIU)
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L,LR - Ihigarev, Iv'ijor General
Unidentified delegates from;
Austria
Czechoslovakia
De ni-ark
France
Iugcs1avia
Poland
Prague, Czechoslovakia France - Y..dol, Lucien (CC)
INcrm:oussenu, Gaston (CC)
nlthough the Communist clement tried to
control the Congress, presu-:.ably It was
not successful, as a soviet-proposed
amendment against rearmament, the -;cstorn
anion and "imperialist terror in Greece"
was defeated 552 to 415, L Tass comment
ad .itted the t there was considerable
"strife" during the meeting.
No further details are known, but the
meeting itself was confirmed,
The alleged purpose of the rumored
meeting to accelerate the
underi.mining of the ILrshall Plan by
effecting strikes in ports and the
urcpean transport system as the Kremlin
considers transport the most vulnerable
point of ECri, No further information has
been received.
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17 Sept 48
Celebration of 29th
Anniversary of founding
of Op Mexico
Delegates
Mexico City. Mexico Costa Rica - Mora Valverde, Manuel
(Sec Gen/PVF)
MWMarinellfo, Juan (Pros/r5P)
Roca, Blas (Sec Gen/PEP)
Spain - Arconada, Felipe (representing
CF Spain members in M_-xico)
US - Weiss, Max (CC/CRRLJ.)
Around Meeting of Satellite
18 Sept t;.8f leaders
Sochi, U' R
Bulgaria - Dimitrev, Georgi (Sec Gen)
Czechoslovakia - Gottwald, Klement
(Chairman Exec Comm)
Hungary - Rakosi, hatyas (Sec Gen)
Vas, Zoltan (Secretariat)
Rumania - Pauker, Ana (Foreign Minister)
The following facts support reliable
reports to the effect that the meeting
of satellite leaders with Stalin was
held at Sochi;
1. Dimitrov - made no public appearances
from 9 Sept until 24 November when it was
announced that he had returned from
"a rests" Rumors during that time persisted
that he was in USSR,
2. Gottwald - was definitely in USSR. He
was reported "abruptly" summoned to Moscow
and left Prague 13 Sept,; He was reported
in the Crimea 22 Sept where "he was
vacationing." He returned to Prague
28 Sept 48.
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leaders (continued
20 Sept 48; nll dlav Congress
e nu --a)'
21-24 Eept'' First General Asseribly
48 of -:iorld Federation of
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Delegates
Frague5 Czechoslovakia
Dobriz Castle (near
Frague, Czechoslovakia
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3? Rakosi - was reported "vacationing"
in Lcscow 22 kept and on 22 Get returned
to Budapest "from a six weeks trip to
Rassia".
4, auker - reported absent from Rumania
18 wept, Allegedly "resting in the country"
Rumored in LEER, 23 Sept was back in
Bucharest.
No further details, lresur:.bly, foreign
delegates attended.
The assembly was reportedly presided over
bb Frederic Tclict-Curie and the main
Czech speaker was 1rofessor Arnost Kolman
(professor of Soviet Philosophy, Charles
University)n
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48
24-26 ;,ep
48
beting
First Congress of Latin
kmerican ietroleun
iorkers
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,tne ric an isl 1- lav
Convention
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i;lace
Chicago, Illinois
Delegates
Colombia - Cavajalinoi vello, Alfonso
a
Ec"everrin
se Mar i
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ivJcntana Cuellar, Diego
Rubio, JGime (Excc Ccm FC,T')
Ecuador - Granados. Francisco
Rar:;irez, Di no lg -rnael
leru - rellano, Jrmando
Garrido Lecca, Teodoro
Vile, Francisco
Venezuela - Faria, Jesus (Secretariat)
Garcia alazar, ',.ntcnic (iR )
Gutierrez, Iui_xime (Ci)
Guzman ii-.ndaeta, Teodorc (Sec:.
Gen, Ccr El Titre)
IJlurval, -orfirio (CC)
Taborda, .Li:nuel (CC)
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Remarks
.lthcurh this congress met as a regular
labor union reeting it was effectively
controlled by a small group composed of
Lombardo Toledano, Faria, rechandieta and
T_a.borda. They succeeded in blocking any
deviation from the agenda which had been
previously prepared by the Ccr:nist-
dcminated CTRL,
;,everal secrot rectings were held at which
action to be taken in case of ,oar was
discussed, and a plan for a world confederation
of oil workers was proposed.
Henry 'iiallace addressed the convention,
Foreign delegates unidentified.
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C Israeli,/General s>sse _b 1y
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Delegates
Tel Lviv, Israel Cyprus Grissosq Elefteri
(Greek Ccrn-unist)
IYrE;yropulcs, Dimitri
(Greek Gorrrunist)
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The assembly ,s called tc discuss the
fcrmetien of a "League of the Friends
of Libe ty". It was attended by 37
delegates,
The Li= of the League are;
1p Coordination of the activities of the
workers and peasants to obtain the right
to bread, liberty and prctecticn cf their
children,
2. .truggle against fcreifn imperialism
under the aegis of the Red -rn e
3. The conclusion of an agreement with the
other C:s in Eastern 1&Lditerranean
countries,
fourth aim, which ras not rritten into
the official declaration or official
report, allegedly concerned the establishment
of "combat