RUSSIA INSISTS “COMINTERN NOT REVIVED”

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1947, Page 4

RUSSIA INSISTS “COMINTERN NOT REVIVED”

NEW YORK, October 13. A denial that the Communist Information Bureau established in Belgrade was a revival of the Comintern was given by Mr Vyshinsky (Russia) in the United Nations Assembly’s political committee today. He was replying to Mr Hector McNeil (Britain), who had said that statements by Communist leaders revealed that the Comintern was back. Addressing Mr McNeil, Mr Vyshinsky said: “You have had a nightmare because nine Communist Party leaders gathered in Warsaw. There is no Comintern. Nine countries —and already you are scared. You have hallucinations and nightmares. Why not take some adrenalin or other drugs to calm your nerves?” During the debate Mr _ Manuilsky (Ukraine), a former chief of the Comintern, said: “If international cartels and trusts can meet in Washington and London to organise against the working class, why cannot workers have the same rights and meet to combat war-mongering and reaction? Mr McNeil'would give such rights to capitalists but deny, them to the workers.”

Mr McNeil accused both Mr Vyshinsky and Mr Manuilsky of making irresponsible statements, adding that he favoured free assembly anywhere.

Mr Herschel Johnston (United States) sarcastically praised Russia for the manner in which she had “kept the peace in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, where nobody gives trouble.”

Mr Vyshinsky hinted that France was a stooge to the United States, to which M. Delbos (France) replied that France used to aggree with Russian policy in the League of Nations, but that many Russian officials had resigned or had been removed one way or another since those days.