Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right Road for Britain took a stand against nationalization of industry. (The Laborites have also indicated that their nationalizing drive is almost spent.) On social services, however, the Tories go as far as Labor-if not a bit farther. Said the Tory pamphlet: "We regard [the social services] as mainly our own handiwork. We shall endeavor faithfully to maintain the range and scope of these services, and the rates of benefits." The Tories promised increased government spending on farm subsidies, rural housing, roads and forests, pensions to widows, spinsters and the aged, and free drugs to "private patients" who choose...
Blood on the Coal. Daniel Ames, 53, looked on with tears in his eyes as fathers carrying children in their arms marched behind mine-union banners. As he saw the banner of his own Hetton-le-hole Lodge go by he said: "Those youngsters are born Socialist. The blood on the coal's the same as wot's in their veins. I couldna bin two year old when me dad first carried me on 'is shoulder behind that banner. 'E wor unemployed then and for years aft.gr...
...remember when we wor turned out of our colliery 'ouse-nowhere ter go because the coal owners owned all the 'ouses. We slept where we could, till me dad got work again. But me mother died-she couldna stand it no longer. And when I wor 13,1 started in the pits pushing tubs...
...Russians throw everyone they suspect into a concentration camp. We don't need to do that. As long as we know the enemy, we are not worried. Our side is stronger. Eventually, the Russians will see they can get nothing more from Germany but trouble. They will go. Until then, we will fight them. Not with sabotage-the Soviet system sabotages itself-but with the collection and spread of information, with passive resistance, with the 'F for Freedom.' If you are against inhumanity, you must fight...
Matsumoto: "Nothing in the world is more important than Communism. There is no truth except dialectical materialism. I wish I could go to a university in Russia where it is the only system taught. When Japan becomes Communist, we will teach nothing but Marxism here...