Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staged for the benefit of 859 U. S. college preceptors visiting London under the auspices of the Art Trust Guild of Chicago. Sir Samuel Chapman, M. P., and Lady Astor enacted, during a recess of the House, the respective roles of a mock-Speaker and a mock-Clydside Laborite extremist. "Attaboy!" shouted many a U. S. savant as the Right Honorable Lady refused to desist from her ex tempore harangue on War debts when called to order by "Speaker" Chapman. Eventually she subsided as her fellow M. P.'s trooped back into the House. Later the Speaker...
Reds Up. Stung by the failure of their chief, the extremists rallied to the support of another measure, introduced as follows by Extremist Harry Pollitt: "We must have shop committees. . . We will prevent workers from being fired as soon as they suggest anything for the betterment of labor . . . We want it understood that Bolshevism is our object...
Anti Imperial. As the Congress drew to a close, it skidded again toward the Reds. A motion of censure against the British Empire was introduced. Extremist Harry Pollitt again rose to his feet, "The Empire means Lord Curzon or Lord Reading riding elephants! . . . It means appalling conditions in India, where workers have to be doped with opium before they will go down the mines . . . Every inch of the Empire is drenched with blood...
Back to Italy he went. At Milan he joined forces with the prominent Socialist Signor Bissolati, whom several years later he helped to expel from the Socialist Party. At this time, he was an uncompromising extremist, believing in force as the only means to win republicanism for Italy. At the beginning of the War, he was still a revolutionist, a republican. He wrote in the Socialist paper Avanti, of which he had previously become the editor: "We do not want war, because we are striving . . . to destroy the prestige of the dynasty, the Army and the State...
Last week a graduated howl arose from Britishers. The Forest of Dean constituency of Gloucestershire preferred A. A. Purcell, extremist Laborite (or Communist in all but name), to a Liberal candidate. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald and most of the moderate Laborites frowned; for was not Purcell's victory also a victory for John Wheatley, the extremist opponent of Mr. MacDonald, whom Mr. Wheatley fondly hopes one day to oust...