COMMUNISTS IN EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25308, 7 October 1947, Page 7

COMMUNISTS IN EUROPE

New Organisation Established *

ANNOUNCEMENT BY MOSCOW

(HZ. Freis Association-Copyright) LONDON, October 5. The first international Communi orgarfisation since the Comnianist Intemaliohal was dissolved in dune, 1943, has been established st Belgrade. The Moscow radio has announced the establishment of dn All-Europe Communist Information Bureau at which the Communal and workers’ parties of Russia. Juiwlavl*, Rumania, Hungary, France, Italy, Caeohoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland will pool inferThe bureau, which is the outcome Of a conference held in Poland last month, will provide liaison between the various European Communist parties. Observers In Moscow said that .the formation of the bureau meant “the spreading <ta the Communist tentacles throughout the world.” The Moscow newspaper “Pravda’’ said that the resolution setting up the bureau explained that it was to meet the needs of the Communist parties in the complicated post-war situation. The worlq was divided into imperialist and anti-imperialist camps and the Communist parties had just become the spearhead of resistance against imperialist aggression of all kinds—political, economic, and ideological. Communists must rally the anti-imperialist and democratic camp against American imperialism and its British and- French Belgrade would be the headquarters of the bureau and a newspaper would be published there, the resolution added. News from the different countries would be published. The resolution said that some countries had liquidated Fascism, but others, notably Britain and the United States, wanted to establish dominating positions in world trade. The United States and Britain were aldo accused of campaigning against Russia and against the “new democraThe resolution added: “'lmperialist forces have made use of all available means and circumstances, and especially of internal dissensions within pafties, Not a small role was played in the treacherous attitude of a section of the Socialist parties by such men as Attlee, Bevin, and Ramadier, Schumacher in Germany, and Renner in Austria.” "Pravda” said that the Information Bureau would organise the exchange of experience among the parties in the nine European countries and co-ordin-ate if necessary their activity on the basis of mutual agreement. "Pravda” devoted nearly a full page to the report of the establishment of the bureau. It also featured under its biggest headlines the news that Colonel-Gen-eral Andrei Zhdanov and Mr Georgi Malenkov, who are two leading members of the Soviet Politburo, attended the conference in Warsaw last month when the decision was taken to establish the bureau. Reuters correspondent in Mosco',l’ says that the declaration appeared only in “Pravda” and not. in the Government organ “Izvestia” or any other newspaper. This emphasised that this was a party decision. The Prague radio said that the Communist parties’ delegates passed the resolution to establish the bureau after the adoption of a report on the international situation by Colonel-Gen-erar Zhdanov.