 It decide to raise an international brigade of 5,000 men and a fund of 1 billion francs to be administered by a commission where Largo Caballero and Dolores Ibárruri had prominent roles.At the same time communist parties throughout the world quicly launched a full scale propaganda campaign in support of the Popular Front.The Communist International immediately refinforced its activity sending to Spain its leader Georgi Dimitrov, and Palmiro Togliatti the chief of the Communist Party of Italy.