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Party Line (1988) | dir. William Webb

A Two Party Line (1925)

From Party Line, Archie's Pal Jughead #14 (1952).

July 1, 1922 Outbursts of Everett True by A.D. Condo

[ID: A young woman with short, bobbed blond hair in a polka-dot dress chats happily on the telephone at home. /end] Mrs. Green: ...and then... we-- Oh, there goes my door bell! ... Listen, Helen, I'll call you up later and tell you the rest! Good bye! Doorbell: R-r-rring! R-r-r-ring! Ring!! R-r-ring!

[ID: Everett True stands on Mrs. Green's doorstep, having a calm conversation, his back to the audience. /end] Everett: Good morning, Mrs. Green. I hope everybody's well. Oh, yes, we're all well. We went driving yesterday. ow? Oh, no, we went out the State Road and came back by way of the Foothill Boulevard. Yes, I should say it was a glorious day! Well,...

[ID: Everett grumpily storms off as Mrs. Green glares at him. /end] Everett: ...I guess Mrs. True has had time to get our order to the grocer over this party line! WE THANK YOU!!!

“Faced with continued Western inertia [about the Japanese invasion of Manchuria] and the need on the diplomatic level to appease the Japanese, Comintern launched a mass-based anti-war campaign matching the Soviet state’s array of nonaggression pacts stitched together by the new people’s commissar Maxim Litvinov at Narkomindel. Comintern resolved at its political committee meeting on 27 April 1932 that “the further growth of the danger of war and intervention against the Soviet Union” had “not met with the necessary determination … The successes thus far of anti-war work are still completely inadequate.” There was as yet no “real mass movement”. 

It was therefore agreed to hold an international anti-war congress on 28 July during an anti-imperialist armaments week “on the widest basis”. A small subcommittee set up to supervise the project, including Willi Münzenberg and a representative from the West European Bureau in Berlin, was to be chaired by KPD leader Ernst Thälmann or his representative. The agenda would focus on the war in China, intervention against the USSR and world war. As the deadline approached, the congress was moved to a three-day event in Berlin in August. Münzenberg was to act as secretary to the committee and the Hungarian Lajos Magyar was added to its tightly restricted list of members. The stipulation made was that the resolutions of the congress must not be “purely Communist but appear independent”; on the other hand, they should focus on the Japanese problem. Nothing confused the Communist rank and file more than the fact that direct collaboration against fascism with the Socialist International and its branches was forbidden as heresy, yet they were supposed to open their arms to these same enemies alongside sundry liberal pacifists at an “independent” congress, in the name of defending the Soviet Union and fighting for peace. But, as one Comintern official pointed out, “Of course, there is nothing bad in succeeding, through some means or other, in deceiving the class enemy. But the trouble is that by such manoeuvres the enemy is not outwitted and one may cause considerable bewilderment within one’s own ranks.” The congress eventually convened in Amsterdam on 27–29 August, with 2,200 delegates from twenty-seven countries.” - Jonathan Haslam, The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021. p. 105-107.

I miss party lines… or just the option…

Do they still exist

William Webb

Guion

Richard Brandes. 

Historia: Tom Byrnes

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