Word: leftishness
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...Most potent Greek underground is the Leftish EAM (National Liberation Front) with its guerrilla army, the ELAS (People's Liberation Army.) The EDES (National Democratic Army), under "General" Napoleon Zervas, occupies a middle ground. The EKKA (National and Social Liberation), headed by a mystery man called Colonel Psarros, is at present inactive but potentially rightish. As with most undergrounds, definitions are fluid, subject to change without notice...
...Miss Ame. Then the Young Soldier meets fat, jolly Mr. Transportouse (Transport House is the head quarters of Britain's conservative labor leaders, loathed by leftish Laborites), who genially expounds the wonders that will come from Labor Party gradualism. He takes out of a box two tiny human figures -Mr. Ema (Education for the Masses) and Miss Ame (Ministress for Amenities). They deliver pretty speeches about classless education and beautiful laborsaving apartments for all. This meeting slightly lifts the Young Soldier's spirits. He hurries past a gesticulating Robot mechanically expounding Marxism and predicting Capitalism's postwar...
...Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, recently gave up half his ?9,000 ($36,000) salary. Tories who dislike His Grace for his leftish economic and social ideas were quick to point a scornful finger at this renunciation. Said Sir Herbert Williams in the House of Commons: "He has entered into a perfectly splendid arrangement . . . [he] will pay less taxation in the future...
Since 1940 State Senator Frederic R. Coudert's Legislative Subcommittee has been chiefly noted for its efforts to wash out leftish teachers (TIME, Dec. 16, 1940; March 31, 1941). But in its new report the Committee advocated several left-of-center measures, wound up by citing Britain's welfare planner Sir William Beveridge: to get maximum war effort from citizens, make them feel that the Government is planning "a better world...
Kennie's intellectual, Russian-born parents are both leftish lawyers. During World War I, Father Wolf defended Eugene Debs and other "seditious" characters. Little Kennie first amazed his parents at four months-by speaking a whole sentence. Just after his first birthday he tackled a first-grade reader. When he was 22 months old, his mother heard a Liszt air coming from downstairs. She thought Kennie had started the player piano, but she found the baby pounding out the melody himself...