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Strongest were rumors that Pinko Mr. Chen may emerge as Foreign Minister of the projected coalition. He has been much at Moscow, would give Chinese policy a sharp leftward twist...
Then there was a wench who kept screaming: "Long live Russia!" The steward who put her out returned ruefully nursing a deeply bitten hand. Naturally the delegates on the floor were quieter than their friends in the gallery, but the Congress's trend was distinctly leftward. Neither Congress Chairman John Beard (a fusty old ex-insurance canvasser) nor the Labor Government's representative Home Secretary John Robert Clynes seemed able to stem the drift. In the end square-shouldered Ernest Bevin, fat, rumbling-voiced, forceful Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, emerged as the hero...
...Cause. No doctrinaire Socialist, Debs participated in the rise of the "cooperative commonwealth" theory in the U. S., saw Socialism split and divide again and again. With each group he would lose patience and move leftward. The Knights of Labor were too idealistic for him, too nonmilitant. The A. F. of L. (''Unionism pure and simple") was too non-political under Samuel Gompers. The railway brotherhoods, opposed to strikes, sought too hard to become "respectable." The Industrial Workers of the World gave promise of a big rival union until it be came an organization of bums addicted to sabotage. Debs...
...leftward swing by the voters to pre-ponderately support this group of groups would very probably result in the eventual replacement of Prime Minister Poincaré by some outstanding member of the Cartel des Gauches and would lead to less orthodox handling of State finance. As may be seen from the above summary, it is a curious fact that the leaders of both the large rival groupings are now members of the present Sacred Union Cabinet which was assembled during the franc crisis from leaders of all parties. Thus no matter which way the election swings, a considerable proportion...
...quite one-third of the Sejm as a whole. The great confusion of party lines made it difficult for even the Marshal to count his Deputies with exactness, but he claimed 150 out of a Sejm of 474. The only trend discernible among the other parties was a leftward shift which virtually undermined the formerly potent Nationalist bloc and slightly swelled the ranks of the Communists...