Word: leftwards
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...hard to predict by rule-of-thumb. Some ten million electors would vote for the first time in their lives. The Tories, after their 1935 landslide (387 seats out of 615) were bound to lose some ground, but Win-with-Winnie was a massive counterbalance to the postwar leftward swing. War-worn Britons wanted social reforms and meant to have them. Would they go part of the way to socialization with the Conservatives, or most of the way with Labor...
...Radical Socialists to the Popular Republicans. Rightists met sharp defeat. Of Paris' 90 councillors, 27 will now be Communists, twelve Socialists and eight Resistance men. Ten years ago the left won only 25 seats. In general, the big cities-Marseilles, Bordeaux, Lyons, Lille, Rouen -followed Paris' leftward lead...
...Shahn, New Jerseyite, veteran social protester - for a show of tempera paintings forming an illustrative pageant of wit, horror, love and leftward politics...
...against these facts stood another fact: France, through her four years of struggle, has achieved a spiritual unity that may withstand the tensions from both left and right. If it does, France will have a republic, moving steadily leftward. If it does not, France will have Communism or a military dictatorship...
...moderate left, the left of the "revolution by law," was ruling France. The Communists were supporting it as long as it moved leftward. Now they were for nationalization of industry. So were De Gaulle and Bidault. But the Communists were strongly opposed to incorporating the F.T.P. in the new French Army. (So far De Gaulle's decree dissolving the F.F.I, has not been enforced.) But the Army was growing rapidly. If it should be used against the F.T.P., there might be trouble...