Word: capitaliste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Popularity. But such capitalist baggage did not prevent Joe Davies from giving Russia a detached once-over. The extrovert Ambassador saw Russia, rather than his own prejudgments of Russia. While most Moscow emissaries stayed in their salons and tried to imagine they were in London or Paris, Joe Davies rustled around looking at industry in Leningrad, agriculture in the Ukraine...
...mouse-defendants admitted that there had been some calisthenics and some target shooting with two .22 pistols and two .22 rifles. Chiefly to intimidate sniffing local Fascists, squeaked they. As for the capitalist system, they admitted that their whiskers curled against it, but they categorically denied, on their honor as mice, that they wanted to overthrow it by force...
Early in the war, Jock McGovern advocated a negotiated peace, on the grounds that there was little to choose between capitalist Britain and totalitarian Germany. Recently, when told that he would have to do a turn of fire-watching on the House of Commons roof, Jock McGovern replied that he would "see the Government in hell...
Last week British democracy allowed Jock McGovern and the other two Independent Laborites, Campbell Stephen and James Maxton, their day in Parliament. They blamed the war on capitalist greed. They attacked Prime Minister Churchill as a "commercial imperialist." Jock McGovern called the Churchill-Roosevelt Atlantic Charter "one of the grossest pieces of deceit in modern times" since "it is to be applied to the nations that have been overrun by Hitler while the independent government which it proposes to give them is denied to territories overrun in the past by Britain." He said that anything except guaranteed "independence...
...glamour off the gleaming facade of our administrative set-up. Psychology reduces emotion, patriotic or otherwise, to nothing more than a stimulus-response mechanism. And a course as basic as Ec A, by adding one and one, dos its part in exploding the myth of free competition in our capitalist society...