Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Violence. The Communists did lose about half a million votes which cost them the control of police forces in some French communities. Communist leaders promptly appealed to the Socialists (who had fared badly in the cities, well in the country) to join them in a "stop De Gaulle" movement. But hardly anywhere was De Gaulle's victory won directly at the expense of the Communists; his support came from M.R.P. voters who had decided that the middle of the road was no place to be these days...
Surveying the situation last week, the New Statesman & Nation aptly summed up: "The new Government, though much more 'intellectual' than its predecessor, is slightly to the right of it and psychologically considerably more remote from the labor movement. The country will probably be ruled more efficiently this winter than last; but there is a danger that the working class may come to think of this Government not as 'us' but as 'them...
...offer for a month. He had not much hope that it would succeed. Greek Communists had become more strident. Trumpeted one of the proclamations of their Central Committee: "It is the primordial duty for . . . Communists without delay to mobilize all their forces . . . and act. . . . The political intentions of our movement today can be realized from a military point of view...
...movement that has already made promising beginnings in South India (TIME...
...last few years he has been active in the world government movement and is on the Executive Board of United World Federalists. He spoke here in the spring of 1946 on behalf of the world government idea...