Word: leftishness
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Though public acclaim made it expedient for the parties thus to go on record, it was by no means certain that the sweeping proposals of the plan would become law. Britain was still leftish-talking, solid-acting Britain. Parliament was still committee-loving, compromise-loving Parliament. Conservatives and the business community still wanted to know where the money was coming from. Labor officials thought "the detailed proposals must necessarily be subject to further scrutiny." And the powerful National Association of Insurance Committees dug in and said that the general situation regarding Beveridge "will be vigilantly watched...
...Government's apologist, Sir Stafford Cripps replied in generalities, seemed tired. His speech not only failed to raise his political star, but, many felt, substantially lowered it. But while Sir Stafford, as the Government's mouthpiece, disappointed many, the leftish weekly Tribune, which Sir Stafford founded, voiced the clamor of millions of Britons...
These two books, the first to come out of Russia since the war engulfed the Soviets, shed a strange leftish light on the mysterious spiritual sources that steel Stalin's subjects to fortitude. There emerges a weird composite of child mentality, propaganda hallucination, semireligious selflessness and apparently bottomless intrepidity-a mixture as interesting but alien to U.S. understanding as Tibet...
Sinclair's history of National Socialism sometimes sounds like a newspaper written by a kindhearted, turn-of-the-century U.S. Socialist (which Sinclair is). But it works in keen little vignettes-of a devoted block-leader, of a Nazi composer, of a leftish Nazi-and portraits of Hitler, of Goring, of Goebbels (with all of whom Sinclair's ubiquitous hero talks and negotiates). These portraits fall short of Tolstoy's Napoleon by as far as the whole work falls short of the sublime Homeric purity of War and Peace; yet they are honest, moving...
Possibly the HLU's stand is that the real reason that the defendants in the Minneapolis sedition trials are being prosecuted is because they are Leftish in their leanings. Such a situation is far from improbable. Yet if it is actually the right of free speech that the HLU is defending, why are they not crying out against the suppression of the Bund and various pro-fascist groups? As far as the theory of the right of free speech is concerned, the two cases are identical; there is a difference only in what the Bund and the Socialist Workers Party...