Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hurriedly the Premier called his four-party (Christian Democrat, Labor Democrat, Liberal, Communist) Cabinet into session. Then Foreign Minister Alcide de Gasperi, chief of the Christian Democrats, handed Vice Premier Palmiro Togliatti. boss Communist, an ultimatum: call off the Communist attack on the Government, or resign. But the Communist Party ordered Togliatti not to resign...
...editor can and does call a Democrat a Democrat, a Baptist a Baptist, sometimes even a spade a spade-but he has to be very careful whom he calls a Communist. Many a Communist-at-heart takes care not to be one officially. What many an editor would like to know: is it libelous per se to call a man a Communist? To the growing body of legal opinion, on which a solid answer will be based some day, two noteworthy items were added last week...
Last week's Pegler balloting brought out as many votes as a Tallahassee city election. Final score: keep Pegler, 637; dump him, 551. Having given Pegler an un-Peglerian (fair) trial, the Democrat said that it would go on publishing the column...
...wrote Indignant Citizen to the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. Indignant Citizen had been roused by a characteristic Peglerian display of calculated bad temper, in which Pegler accused Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal of "a dangerous conspiracy . . . to abolish the freedom of the whole people." The Tallahassee paper, well aware that everybody talks about Pegler but nobody does anything about him, said it would take a vote if enough readers demanded one. The demands quickly filled three columns. Among them...
...conditions to be binding. Therefore he flatly refused to deal with any delegates who were not members of the Greek Communist Party, which controls ELAS. Several days were spent in wrangling before the .Government finally accepted ELAS' three delegates: Communist Party Secretary George Siantos, Communist Demetrios Partsalides, Popular Democrat Elias Tsirimokos...