Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Added Abbas candidly: "There is no military solution to the Algerian problem." In Paris the leftist weekly L'Express flatly reported that the De Gaulle government has been in touch with the rebels, using Indian and Lebanese diplomats as intermediaries...
Brazil's DIARIO DA NOITE: Certain leftist groups, especially Communists, are against Mrs. Luce. They cannot tolerate the energy with which she has fought Marxism...
...armed forces a leftist and fellow-traveler network reaches high up: Argentine-born Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, commander of Havana's La Cabana Fortress, who joined a militia of Arbenz Communists in Guatemala; Army Commander in Chief Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, who spent 1952-53 studying in Prague and Budapest; Alfredo Guevara (no kin to Che), boss of the army information program; Major Manuel Pineiro, commander of Oriente and supervisor of a secret training center in Santiago, where anti-American propaganda is used to indoctrinate officer candidates...
...blue-eyed grandson of English and Dutch immigrants, Lott would like to be President. He has a following of leftist nationalists who admire his pronouncements favoring land reform and the socialistic state oil monopoly. He himself is the sort of nationalist who opposes diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R., wins conservative admiration as a stabilizing force, warmly admires the U.S. He is hoping to get the support of Kubitschek's Social Democrats...
...Lefty is not much over twenty years old, but already it appears naive, not to say puerile; its melodramatic politics, so characteristic of the time (coarse, pravdaically fiendish big-business villains and oppressed but upright working-class heroes) is as dated as its slang. The "Solidarity Forever" day of leftist-labor idealism are over; people who were part of them seldom like to talk about them, even before Congressional committees. In 1959 Clifford Odets' play about striking taxi drivers deserves attention largely as an amusing, nostalgic period piece...