Reactions

Cordell Hull: "Welcome news."

Britain (a highly placed official): "It ought to dispel the fears of elderly maiden aunts everywhere." The Labor Party's orthodox trade unionists said it would not affect the opposition to a request from the British Communist Party for affiliation.

Germany: 1) "The whole affair is nothing but a gigantic bluff of Allied wirepullers"; 2) "Stalin has sold Communism for Allied friendship."

Argentina: Viewed with suspicion.

Sweden: "A further proof of the Soviet Union's determination to fight to a victorious end on the side of the Allies against Fascist dictatorships" (from Torsten Kreuger's strongly anti-Communist Aftonbladet).

Italy: No mention.

Spain (Madrid's Informaciones): "We do not believe this."

Natalie Sedova Trotsky: "It is now clear to the world that the tradition of the October Revolution and of Lenin and Trotsky is carried on only by the Fourth [Trotskyite] International."

Martin Dies: "It will enable us to wind up our work at an early date."

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