Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring, Social Democrat Katayama had traded away most of his socialist principles to win the support of conservatives for his coalition. However, Shigeru Yoshida, ultra-conservative Liberal party leader, pulled out. Hitoshi Ashida, head of the conservative Democrats, gave only grudging cooperation, pushed easygoing Katayama along an economic path more conservative than socialist. Within his own party, Katayama steadily lost support...
Pudgy, bald Mario Scelba, Christian Democrat Minister of the Interior, had already thought about it a good deal. Italians would elect a Parliament on April 18. The last thing Scelba wanted was swaggering, uniformed, intimidating bands of Communists and left-wing Socialists marching the streets of Italy. Scelba wanted a law forbidding all private armed organizations. But his cabinet colleagues needed convincing. They feared a row. With a shrewd twinkle in his black eyes, Mario Scelba let scrappy Il Tempo take up the cudgels...
...neither the State Department nor Feng did anything about his return. Last week, Feng was still talking and some American liberals were still cheering him as a democrat...
...Chinese in his Manhattan apartment last week, "are always progressing." In 67 years, China's Feng Yu-hsiang (known to the West as the "Christian General") has progressed at a fabulous pace. These days, a good many Americans who call themselves liberals hail him as a great Chinese democrat...
...Democrat. Fighting the Japanese, he suffered several crushing defeats; to save his face, Chiang gave him ringing government titles. In 1946 Feng told the Generalissimo that he wanted to go to the U.S. to study water conservation and act as good-will ambassador for Chiang. "Whatever you wish, Ta Ko [Big Brother]," said Chiang. Ever since then, Feng has been in the U.S., making violent proCommunist, anti-Chiang propaganda. Cried he of Chiang: "Reactionary . . . dictator . . . traitor ... his rule must be overthrown...