Word: oppositionist
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...wondrous vocabulary, his skill at political infighting, his long labors for Australian labor, he lacked the guts and drive of a first-class leader. He was to Australian politics what William Edgar Borah, the late Thaddeus H. Caraway and other Senate gadflies were to the U.S.: a born oppositionist who talked a great government, but seemed to shy from the job of running...
Refugee colonists-Czechs, Poles, Belgians, Dutch, Rumanians, Jews, "De Gaullists"-were already clearing out as fast as they could get visas. Yugoslav oppositionists handed Prince Paul a memorandum complaining that the people were being told nothing. Presently police raided the headquarters of the oppositionist Democratic Party, seized its manifestoes and its leader, Milan Grol. It all had the familiar odor of the Hitler approach. At week's end it was reported that Yugoslavia had arranged a "compromise" with Adolf-Yugoslavia would be "nonaggressive" and would allow the Nazis to move down the Vardar Valley toward Greece. Next...
...many Mexican politicos the Presidential election on July 7 had decided nothing. Both Government Candidate Manuel Avila Camacho and Oppositionist Almazán claimed victory and each faction had announced that it would install a Congress, which as an electoral college would pass on the validity of its own election and on Sept. 1 proclaim its candidate President...
Naturally this was linked in pro-Government minds to Oppositionist Almazan. Naturally all the elements which oppose the imposition of Avila Camacho were willing to see the labor blow-up go sky high. And that was a danger last week. If labor fell down on the Government, the Government would have to fall back on the Army. Once again the six-year-old NEW Revolution wabbled between the mastery of the State and the labor unions...
...week: certainly Britain's ruling class still considers him brilliant, erratic, unsafe; certainly Prime Minister Chamberlain would regard his entry as a major calamity. But in or out, Cabinet Minister or M. P. for Epping, Winston Churchill served last week as a symbol of British democracy, as an oppositionist of the kind that totalitarian governments cannot endure...