Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready to go? Actually the question did not have to be asked, because Togliatti attacked it himself. He spoke with the disciplined fluency of a man long practised in saying no more and no less than the moment calls for: "We Communists haven't changed our program of reform since we left the government. Only today we obviously cannot realize it by collaborating with the government, but by popular pressure. The news is false which the rightist press has been distributing about the date of a revolution." Choosing each word carefully, he concluded: "But one can never, generally speaking...
...Spree & the Promise. The reform had been anticipated. Two weeks earlier the U.S. State Department's Voice of America had reported a buying spree in Moscow, started by a rumor of new money. Thousands of Russians frantically tried to convert their money into more durable things-silk lampshades and fur coats-and stores closed on empty shelves behind signs which read: "Closed for repairs." Even when people had new money the shelves might stay empty...
...take a slap at clubmen: "The club men form a very definite class of dwindling importance at Harvard, who only occasionally come out of their isolated routine to demonstrate their vicious and decayed mentalities." This same article demonstrates the authors' impatience and scorn for any methods of reform which do not embody publicity, action, and conflict. Their abhorrence of "evil" is admirable; but the emphasis on "direct action" leads to the suspicion that AYDers are not such masters of practical politics as is implied by the editorial in the "New Student...
...Lorent worked for social reform with the Communists before the war. During the Resistance, he began to distrust them; now he hates them, and they hate...
...called because they follow the reform inaugurated in the 17th Century by the Abbot de Rancé in the Abbey La Trappe, in Normandy...