Word: leftwards
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...Salvador. Inspired newspaper stories spoke hopefully of future meetings between Arevalo and Honduras' new President Juan Manuel Gálvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio. Guatemalan student delegations were hustled off to both countries to spread good will. Noting slight leftward turns by both governments, Arévalo exulted: "I don't have to paddle, I'm going downstream...
...slightness of the change showed the strength of Amsterdam's realization that the war had turned much of the world leftward and that the churches, if they are to spread their influence, must do more than reaffirm the prewar status quo. The forcefulness of the statement, compared to earlier ecumenical pronounce ments, showed that a new leadership was rising in the new World Council. In the top flight of that leadership is Bishop Oxnam...
Died. Claude McKay, 58, onetime Pullman porter and first Negro to write a bestseller (Home to Harlem, 1928); after long illness; in Chicago. A protege of Max Eastman, Poet-Author McKay drifted leftward through Communism to disillusionment, then swung to Catholicism, lost his high literary promise...
...doctors do not trust Bevan. In medical terms, he is a "corrected sinistral": left-handed as a child, he developed a stammer when elders forced him to be righthanded. He cured the stammer, relapses only when he is excited; but the doctors think that his politics move steadily leftward...
Third Party. But Henry was jubilant, and his statement of intentions soared with the upcurve of his jubilation. When he started out, Wallace was cautiously insisting that his sole aim was to scare the Democratic Party leftward. By the time he reached Denver, he was threatening: "If we can't make the Democratic Party liberal, we'll have to take what action is appropriate." In Bismarck he hinted with boyish glee that he might take "a Democratic vacation" in 1948, i.e., form a third party...