Basic Research on the Pan-American Agency of the Comintern

本研究的主要内容如下：1.本研究论文的第二部分对35篇重点文献进行了精心挑选、编辑和印刷，以全面了解该机构的全貌。本文集包括原子能机构成员秘密提交给莫斯科共产国际执行委员会的机密报告，尤其是自1921年3月底以来从纽约移居墨西哥的该机构主席片山森，以及发给北美洲和南美洲同志的一些声明、信件等。虽然这项研究的最初目的是开始调查工程处的实际活动，并解释共产国际决定解散工程处的过程，但那些我可以深入研究的文件和相关材料使我得以进一步研究：我已能够全面了解工程处的活动，但加拿大和南美洲的活动除外。本文第一部分包含研究成果。通过这一基础性研究，我对该机构存在的问题有以下几点认识：(1)由于共产国际有两条指令链，混乱是无法避免的。(2)两个美国共产党都不接受该机构的权威。相反，他们只指望它的融资能力。此外，机构内外的财务困境从未停止过。(3)虽然该机构被共产国际特地授权为外国机构之一，但其权力仍然具有限制性和模糊性，这在后来引起了争议，最终导致共产国际单方面下令解散该机构，以澄清这种混乱。

This research has been carried out as follows :1. In order to get the whole picture of the Agency, 35 key documents were carefully selected, edited and printed in the second part of this research paper. This collection comprises confidential reports which were secretly delivered to the Executive Committee of the Comintern in Moscow by the members of the Agency, above all, its chairman, Sen Katayama who had moved from New York to Mexico since the end of March 1921, as well as some statements, letters, etc. which were sent to the comrades in North and South America.2. Although the original purpose of this research was to start an investigation into the actual activities of the Agency and to explain the process of the Comintern's decision to dissolve the Agency, those documents and related materials of which I could make a thorough study have enabled to pursue further research : I have been able to get in the general an entire picture of the Agency's activities except for those in Canada and South America. The first part of this paper contains the research results.Through this basic research I have grasped the problems on the Agency as follows : (1) The confusion could not be prevented due to the fact that the Comintern had two chains of instructions. (2) Both American Communist parties did not accept the authority of the Agency. On the contrary, they only counted on its funding abilities. In addition, financial troubles were never stopped inside and outside Agency. (3) Although the Agency was exceptionally authorized as one of the foreign bureaus by the Comintern, its authority was still restrictive and ambiguous, which later became controversial and finally caused the one-sided order from the Comintern to dissolve the Agency in order to clear up this confusion.