Word: loyalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spain, as one of the leftist intellectuals who supported-and often died for-the Loyalist cause, that Auden wrote his most political poetry. A left sympathizer, but never committing himself to Communism, he celebrated the relentless pace of Marx's History. Disillusioned and frightened by the approaching Nazi apocalypse, infatuated with a romantic conception of the working class, cagier to write for a Cause, Auden and his friends wrote poetry of violent revolution. Twenty years later, editing a collection of his works Auden amitted "Spain 1937," one of his most famous poems...
Most important for the Democrats' present needs, he is a conciliator and an old-fashioned loyalist more concerned with the party as a whole than with any faction or personality within...
...Stern Loyalist Review. Pompidou has been remarkably candid about his prime motivation for arranging the jet deal with Libya: he is determined to increase the French presence throughout the Western Mediterranean, which he regards as a vital French defense area and sphere of influence. Paris diplomacy is concentrating "on those parts of the world which are geographically close to her, such as Europe, Africa-whether it be North Africa or Black Africa," he told Rademaekers. "It is in these regions that I am trying to accentuate France's presence and give it greater reality." Under Pompidou's direction...
...Cabinet member most loyal to the departed Charles de Gaulle and to his policies, Pompidou's decision grated on those ministers who are anxious for France to abandon the route charted by De Gaulle. But the French President feels even stronger pressure from another quarter. He faces stern "loyalist" review of almost every decision, chiefly from some 25 Deputies who make known their views both in and outside the Gaullist party. Pompidou is hardly their prisoner, but he neatly sums up his predicament by saying...