Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat Garner's kudos went to a Republican. Garner's judgment on Herbert Hoover: "[He] is the wisest statesman on world affairs in America...
This deduction is not justified. Masaryk was a liberal middle class democrat of the best sort. He was in sympathy with the progress that was being made in his country. He clearly did not support those, reactionary forces which sought to check it. However, after the events of two weeks ago, he saw in Czechoslovakia the beginnings of a new type of society, a socialist society of workers and farmers, one in which the centuries-long cycle of exploitation was to be brought to a close. But this was also a society in which his class and the ideology...
...Europeans. Up in his study, within earshot of the singing students, was the man from whom the country expected an answer. For a long time President Eduard Benes had thought he knew where his home was. He was a European and a democrat. All his life he had believed in "synthesis." It was a faith, shared by millions of liberals everywhere, that the 20th Century's clashing opposites (even Communism and democracy) could be reasonably reconciled...
...shenanigans, Democrat Glen Taylor is no fool. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he got little formal education, made up for it by wolfing every volume on social and economic matters he could lay his hands on. He herded sheep for a while, for several years made a living as a tent-show cowboy in a Western stock company...
...Police & General Svoboda. The National Socialist was one of four non-Communist parties which had brought on the crisis. Fortnight before, its leaders, together with those of the Slovakian Democrat, Catholic People's and Social Democrat parties, had caused a showdown. They caught Police Boss Nosek firing non-Communist policemen and replacing them with Reds. When Nosek refused to reinstate the men, 15 non-Communist cabinet members boycotted the cabinet...