Word: neos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things considered, we can see no toward from these measures that would not at best be offset and at worst outweighed by their detects. Amateur athletics are not something plastic adjusting briefly to popular indignation then resuming their neo professional shape. De-emphasis must be permanent and thorough, despite incidental irritations. We hope that the Ivy League presidents in meeting assembled this January will not tamper with their current program, especially for so little purpose as the Princetonian suggests...
...organization of the neo-fascist movement began in 1949 with the formation of the Sozialistische Reichspartei in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. This section is mainly agricultural, and suffered comparatively little during the war. Furthermore, under Hitler it received many benefits such as army and slave labor. The citizens looked back on the days of Hitler, with the stirring military parades and the official praise of farmers as the backbone of Aryan Germany, with more regret for their passing than loathing of their horrors...
Actually, the election itself-a purely local scramble for 100,000 council seats-proved very little. Three facts stood out: 1) neo-Nazis and other right-wing radicals made gains, all of them proportionately small; 2) the established democratic parties-Konrad Adenauer's right-of-center coalition and the opposition Social Democrats-sturdily held their ground and their majorities; 3) the Communist vote diminished...
...more attention in the foreign press than it did in Germany. Even in Lower Saxony, where a quirk in the voting laws gives each registered voter three separate votes, only four overt Nazis, one of them Schepmann, were elected to office. Of 18 million votes cast in West Germany, neo-Nazi and right-wing radicals netted about...
...became president and had to abandon any party affiliation, now is the smallest of the three parties. It includes everything from Fair Deal Democrats to militant Progressives, like Weinberg himself. In pre-war days the party had several Communist members, but today there are none--at least openly. A neo-fascist bloc also is supposed to have flourished within the Conservative party prior to 1941, but all traces of that too have vanished