 After his reappearance, Stachel was made Associate Editor of the Communist Party's English-language newspaper, the "Daily Worker" — a post in which he remained until October 1945.Following his departure from the "Daily Worker," Stachel was appointed Chairman of the CPUSA's "Education, Agitation and Publications Department" (AgitProp), which job he formally held through 1950.Following the end of World War II the brief period of cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States came to an abrupt close and a new Cold War erupted, bringing with it renewed government efforts to hamstring the American Communist Party and its leaders.