Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austria's Dr. Karl Renner, the veteran Social Democrat whom Russia had placed in power, last week resigned as Chancellor. The Volkspartei, victorious at the elections (TIME, Dec. 3) was busy organizing a new multi-party Cabinet. The incoming Chancellor, slender, pleasant, subtle, 43, was a man few Austrians knew much about until the Allied victory in Europe. His name: Leopold Figl...
Looking ahead to the Constituent Assembly elections next spring, the right wing feared lest it lose prospective votes by remaining in an unpopular coalition. First the Liberals, then the Christian Democrats and Labor Democrats walked out on the Actionists, Socialists and Communists. The six parties seemed irreparably parted. Cried Benedetto Croce's Liberals: "The era of antifascism should end, giving way to a new, peaceful constructive era of post-fascism. . . ." Protested Christian Democrat leader Alcide de Gasperi: "Fascism will never happen again. Never." Growled Pietro Nenni's Socialists: Italian reaction, egged on by Anglo-American capital, was plotting...
When all the returns were in, Austria was back where it had been 15 years ago, with results almost matching those of the last free national elections in 1930. Once again "Red Vienna" had voted heavily Social Democrat. Once again the "black countryside" had voted for the Right. And the Communists, nowhere then, were nowhere...
...Communist, Socialist, and Progressive Democrat parties, which make up a strong sector of the democratic united front against Peron, would take religion out of both school and state, permit divorce...
...With Democrat Gossett replacing Republican Thomas, the Senate balance-of-power is right back where it started after the 1944 elections. Although five Senators have died and two resigned since the elections, the Democrats still have 56, the Republicans...