Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting to the first Communist Party rally since the Reds' referendum defeat, Communist Secretary General Maurice Thorez sniped at his Socialist counterpart and late ally, Daniel Mayer: "Instead of making a common front with us against a reactionary offensive ... he prefers to break lances with 'bolshevism'. . . . These . . . tactics . . . will be deplored by all workers and anti-fascists...
Leftists, confident that the June 2 referendum would establish an Italian republic, dubbed Umberto Il Re di Maggio (King...
Communists were cocky, moderates jittery as France held her referendum on the Constitution of the Fourth Republic. Wiseacres had predicted that most citizens were fed up with seven months of wrangling in the Assembly, that popular disgust with politics would be reflected in a light vote, that the disciplined Left would profit from public apathy, that the way was paved for a solid "Yes" vote on the Communist-sponsored Constitution. The result would be a one-chamber government and a probable party-machine dictatorship...
Naturally, Communist gloating was restrained. Deputy Raymond Guyot predicted, "After the triumph of May 5 [the referendum on the Constitution] we will go on to triumph on June 2 [the election of a new Assembly], when Maurice Thorez will become the new Premier!" But he did not explain the connection between the referendum and Communist control of the Government...
...week's end the wise money in Paris was betting seven to five that most Frenchmen would vote "yes" in the Constitution referendum. If they did, M.R.P.'s seven months of cooperation might end soon-with M.R.P. tossed out to make way for a Government of the Left...