Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finns who thought of Prague could guess what "conditions for a radical improvement" might be. While Finland's leftist Premier Mauno Pekkala began packing for a trip to Moscow, others in Finland were also snapping their suitcase locks. Swarms of Baltic and Russian refugees swamped Helsinki's Swedish consulate seeking visas, and in their near-panic quest for hard currency the open market price of a dollar shot up from 700 Finn-marks to 1,000. Finland's Communist
...Washington bureau, Chief Andrews set to digging it out himself. His dispassionate study of the case of "Mr. Blank" filled six columns of the Herald Tribune on Nov. 2. Factual as a cookie recipe, it struck a more telling blow for liberty than any arm-waving leftist could have landed, and it caused a change in State Department policy...
These days, with the Economist sharply critical of government bungling, it gets little but dirty digs from leftist Laborites (last week the Socialist Tribune called it the "young Tories' weekly bible"). But the Economist, generally conservative in its economics and liberal in its politics, does not oppose efficient state planning. It just thinks that freedom is more efficient than the order imposed by Labor's unimaginative, often inefficient state...
Headlined "Democratic spirit lives on at Yale," the article didn't touch on leftist groups until the very end, when it mentioned without comment a Socialist Club and a new-default AYD branch...
Harvard has anti-leftist teachers, too," was the frank admission headlined by Saturday's Chicago Tribune, after the sensationalist journal had spent a week hurling invective at "communism" in the College courses and faculty...