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...women grew old at 30. Religion was their chief succor. The Methodist revival burned bright in the Lancashire mill towns, and its influence provided Britain's Labor Party, one of whose strongholds is South Lancashire, with a strain of Biblical humanism that tempers the doctrinaire Socialism of its Marxist intellectuals. South Lancashire today sends more than 50 M.P.s to Parliament, two-thirds of them Labor. Depression in its textile industry could increase the Labor vote in next month's general election. Looms Without Orders. Last week the threat of depression loomed large over Lancashire's valleys. Among...
...country of lively anticlericalism. Marxist polemics and half-empty churches, France has some surprising reading tastes. The bestseller of the last ten years, reports the current issue of Les Nouvelles Litteraire, is The Little World of Don Camillo,* Italian Author Giovanni Guareschi's famed series of stories about the saintly deviltries of Village Priest Don Camillo in his running war with Communist Mayor Peppone. One reason for the book's popularity may be that, while to U.S. readers such shenanigans are amusingly exotic, to Frenchmen they are amusingly, and often disturbingly, familiar. There is, for instance, the case...
...wave of action to Communism which occurred in the post-war years, many people strongly protested the appearance of such people as Gerhart Eisler before University audiences. When Eisler spoke in 1948 and 1949 on such topics as "The Marxist Theory of Social Change" newspapers and commentators throughout the country branded the University as "Communist-run" and called upon the administration to ban Eisler and his ilk from the University scene...
...statements explained that Hicks was appointed for his capabilities and for his reputation in American literature, not because of his liberalism. A CRIMSON editorial hailed him as the producer of one of the best historical attempts at American literature since the Civil War, referring to his "Great Tradition," a Marxist interpretation of American literary history since...
...death, a band of progressive reformers on the Socialist right wing have sought to change the party's ways. Led by able, French-born Professor Carlo Schmid, a potbellied b&n vivant, the reformers want the SPD to junk 1) its aging bureaucrats, and 2) its Marxist jargon. The party, says Schmid, should move to the right so as to attract the votes of small shopkeepers and professional...