Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state organs in the country . . . while in Yugoslavia we have just the opposite . . . Capitalist elements are in full bloom . . . The Yugoslav Communist Party is being put to sleep by rotten opportunistic theories of peaceful absorption of capitalist elements . . . This is nothing new. In Russia 40 years ago a faction of the Mensheviks proposed that the Marxist party be dissolved into a nonparty workers' mass organization. As is known, Lenin classified these Mensheviks as hellish opportunists...
...this works was demonstrated last week by the case of Mosa Pijade, vice president of the Yugoslavia National Assembly, who was looked upon in some quarters as a possible leader of the anti-Tito faction in Belgrade. Pijade disappointed the hopeful by publishing a slavish defense of Tito in the party organ, Borba. The Cominform charges, said Pijade, were "violent and unscrupulous . . . full of inaccuracies and calumny...
Belgium's "crisis" ended in total victory for Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. When a faction of his own Socialist Party had refused to go along with his handling of the Socialist-Catholic dispute over school subsidies, he had resigned (TIME, May 17). Last week, at the "earnest request" of Regent Charles and of Parliament, he withdrew his resignation. Spaak was back on his own terms-the compromise finally adopted in the school dispute was (except for minor details) the one on which he had insisted all along. "He is really strong -too strong for the others," said a Brussels...
Eastman Birkett 1L was elected chairman and Leon Waks 1L vice-chairman of the local AVC as the moderate faction swept all its candidates into office...
...year ago. In the spring of 1947, Thorez offered friendship to other "democrats" who wanted to rebuild France and Europe. Last autumn the Cominform in Belgrade knocked the props from under that milk-toasty policy. Many Frenchmen thought that Thorez, leader of the French Communists' "take-it-easy" faction, was washed up as the head of his party...