Word: frontism
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Within the Socialist Party itself, support of the new government is far from unanimously approved. Almost half the Party opposes association with an anti-Communist government and urges a return to the "frontism" of the 'forties. Should the Communists find an adequate excuse for categorical rejection of the government, this considerable faction within the Socialist Party is expected to follow them into opposition...
...Schlesinger, Jr., had been over much of the same ground in his more-convincing "The Vital Center." There is also the feeling that this book is at least two years too late, that first Czechoslovakia and then Korea aroused almost all American intellectuals from their long flirtation with popular frontism. Yet, if there have been more convincing books about that infatuation, there have been few more irritating, and, for those still-slumbering intellectuals, a good irritant might prove the cure...
Bulky Nye Bevan obviously did not think it was time for a showdown. Nye had been expelled by the party once before (in 1939, for peddling Popular Frontism); what's more, he did not have the votes to challenge Attlee. "There is nothing sinister in the Bevan group," he said, hand on heart. "Let us put off [a vote] until the next session of [Parliament]." But the majority turned him down. By 188 votes to 51 (with 53 Laborites absent or abstaining), the Parliamentary Labor Party endorsed Attlee's ultimatum. The Bevanites would probably disband as a group...
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