Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measured complaints of Democrat Powell and his 25-year-old wife were prompt-and promptly relayed to the press. In Minneapolis for a concert, Miss Scott told newsmen she thought the First Lady's action "looks as if she gives sanction" to the D.A.R. action...
...right, despite the presence of the Red Army. In the Budapest municipal elections the non-socialist Small Holders' Party, which advocated breaking up Hungary's large estates into small privately owned holdings, won control of the City Council with 122 seats against 104 for the Communist-Social Democrat coalition. Much of its support came from people eager to vote for the only well-organized non-Communist party. The Small Holders' leader, Zoltan Tildy, jubilantly predicted that in the national election next month all Hungary would follow the capital...
...Benes well knows, revolutions are never as simple as that. Synthesized or not, they pose the basic question: is the state to be the master or the servant of the people? And if the state is king, can the citizen be free? A lifelong democrat, Eduard Benes would probably answer such questions with another: what if, as in Britain and now in Czechoslovakia, free men choose to limit their freedom...
...late, great Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was Czechoslovakia's George Washington. He and Benes first met at Prague's Charles University, and thereby began one of history's notable partnerships in thought, politics and statesmanship. Masaryk's influence turned the didactic radical into a tolerant democrat and eclectic rationalist. Eduard Benes began to practice the blending "art of synthesis." In his Charles University thesis, he essayed a prophetic conclusion: mankind must find a synthesis of its ideals in order to form a working formula for progress. Democracy, in particular, must find the correct compromise between individualism...
Minister de Gasperi was on his way to a session of Italy's first free meeting of political minds since Mussolini abolished parliamentary government 20 years ago. It was also the first to hear a woman's voice. Said good-looking Anna Maria Cingolani, a Christian Democrat and one of deeply Catholic Italy's new feminists...