International Entente Against the Third International

The International Entente Against the Third International (French: Entente internationale contre la III:e internationale, after 1938 the International Anticommunist Entente, French: Entente Internationale Anticommuniste EIA) was an international anti-communist organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland.

The organisation was founded by the Swiss advocate Théodore Aubert as a response to the Communist International in 1924. According to John Baker White's memoirs, the British anti-communist who was later a spy took part in the founding assembly.[1]

The entente had national chapters in over 20 countries, with the aim of influencing political and journalistic circles.[2] In Finland for example, the national chapter Suomen Suojelusliitto was founded by the prominent statesman Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim a year earlier in 1923 to do anti-communist education.[3]

EIA published Revue Anticommuniste.[4] EIA opened an information centre in August 1937.[4]

The organisation ceased operation in 1950.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Hope, John (1994). "Surveillance or collusion? Maxwell Knight, MI5 and the British Fascisti". Intelligence and National Security. 9 (4): 651–675. doi:10.1080/02684529408432275. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Courtois, Stéphane (2007). Dictionnaire du communisme (in French). p. 93. ISBN 978-2035837820.
  3. ↑ Pieni Tietosanakirja IV. San Remo - Öölanti. Otava 1928.
  4. 1 2 André Lasserre; Brigitte Studer (1996). Sous l'œil de Moscou: le Parti communiste suisse et l'Internationale, 1931-1943. Chronos-Verlag. p. 771. ISBN 978-3-905311-56-3.
  5. ↑ Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives. Google Books: Hoover Press. 1980. p. 141. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
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