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...wing of the party, calling itself the Reformists, realizes the danger and is battling the old-guard bureaucrats for control. Reformist Chief Heinrich Al-bertz, a Protestant pastor and minister in the Lower Saxony Cabinet, would junk the old Marxist catch phrases, and pattern the SPD roughly after the British Labor Party. Albertz argues: "We have good ideas; we are on the right road, but we are unable to speak to the people in their own language. The policy of the present party has as little to do with Marxism as Copernicus does to the 20th century...
Linklater soon gets his variegated cast moving, his wheels-within-wheels churning out the butter of melodrama. Reformist M.P. Pettigrew speedily rouses the fury of the village women, while his wife works havoc with the menfolk. The Greek professor (who is Author Linklater disguised in a tunic) orates at length on life, love and Labor; the poachers cast their nocturnal nets in the moorland stream. Sluggish Laxdale plunges into a 'hubbub of mingled rage, passion, skulduggery and Euripidean oratory...
...special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson and former American Bar Association head, Cody Fowler), the chore was accepted by Newbold Morris, a blueblood reformist Republican from Manhattan...
...retract. Admitting that he had not "acted cleverly," he dutifully sent in his recantation, for the current issue of Questions of Economics. It sounded familiar-almost as though the Russians now had printed forms for these occasions. Wrote Varga: "I formed a whole chain of errors of a reformist trend-which naturally also means of a cosmopolitan trend-because they beautify capitalism . . . [My errors] have caused great harm and compelled our economists to return to questions long ago correctly solved by Marxism-Leninism...My mistake was that I did not recognize right away that my critics were correct. But better...
With only minor variations, the issue which revived the slogans in 1948 was the same one which had created them in 1832 and 1911: the noble Lords were in a last-ditch fight against a reformist government, battling to save what few political teeth they still had left. But precedent was against them. Always before they had fought, and always lost...