Word: imperialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal pits. But he kept preaching. His sermons became tinged with socialism, and gradually only socialism remained. The mine owners fired him and he was blacklisted in all the Welsh mines. When World War I broke out, he refused to bear arms in what he called "an imperialist and anti-working-class...
...midst of the Russo-Finnish crisis the first signs of Young Communist League disruption appeared and by 1941 the ASU was a diseredited front. Out of its ruins emerged four non-Communist groups, all calling for aid to the Allies while the ASU carried a banner shouting "imperialist war": Student League for Progressive Action, Student Defenders of Democracy, Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and Democracy's Volunteers. Amid great oclat the Student Merger Convention at Harvard in December of 1941 set up the Student League of America--doomed from the start to dissolution before the long...
...aging Welsh wonder-boy of British journalism was as giftedly gabby as ever but no longer so leftish. At 23, as political mascot to Old Liberal Lloyd George, Owen had been Parliament's youngest member. At 32, he had left the Express to become the Socialist editor of Imperialist Beaverbrook's Evening Standard (the Beaver did not forbid dissenting opinions, but only dull ones, from such bright-pink young men as Owen and his successor Michael Foot). On the Standard, Owen had tramped hard on Tory toes, squawked against Chamberlain's appeasers...
Canada, he said, had "double-crossed" Russia while she was still a wartime ally by giving super-explosives to the U.S. but withholding them from Russia. Now Canada was going aggressively "imperialist" as a "junior partner" of the U.S. The party would fight this policy and would look for support to the trade-union movement and the "politically conscious forces in French Canada." These bucko words were more exaggerated than usual. The Reds did have potent cells or control in many a Canadian union, e.g., the International Woodworkers of America, and the Canadian Fishermen's Union (TIME...
Next day in Paarl, a hotbed of nationalist sentiment, royalty met "General" Hendrik Marsh, whose fascistic Ossewa Brandwag organization's purposes have ranged from sabotaging the British war effort to outlawing Santa Claus as a British imperialist importation.* Said Marsh afterward: "The Royal Family captured us completely by their gracious simplicity. We expected pomp. Now that I've met Their Majesties, I'd personally like to ask them to stay here...