Word: rightward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georges Bidault, one of the party's founders and France's former Foreign Minister, who had won out over Pierre Henri Teitgen, gaunt ex-Minister of Justice, his rival for the party presidency. Bidault's election raised a big question: would he lead his party rightward from its present "Third Force" position into an alliance with Charles de Gaulle...
Zillie protested that his only crime was his search for "peace," while the Labor Party was edging ever rightward toward Churchill's own "war policy." No Communist cardholder, Zillie has persistently buzzed along with the Moscow line. Last year, on the eve of the Italian elections, he and 21 other Labor left-wingers sent a letter of support to Communist Stooge Pietro Nenni. Last month, in Paris, Zillie denounced U.S.-British policy at the Communist-inspired "Peace Congress" (TIME...
Where Cárdenas meant upheaval Avila Camacho meant the sun and the wind, which would heal wounds and quiet a torn land. Mexico was sick of being pulled leftward by Communists, rightward by Fascists. To deeply religious Mexicans, Avila Camacho stood for the middle way, the return to quiet, earthy values. They listened when he said "Soy creyente" ("I am a believer"), a profession of faith which no Mexican President had publicly voiced since Benito Juarez nationalized the church's properties during the 1856-59 reform laws. They listened when he said "Los que no se obtiente...
...Plutarco Elías Calles made Mexico nationalistic, anticlerical, anti-U. S. Then Calles grew conservative and the pendulum swung to the right until another strong-man President, Lázaro Cárdenas, gave it a violent heave to the left. Avila Camacho had not only started it rightward again but with considerable momentum...
...first stop was Paris. There the ceremonies were a little shabby, for Herr Hitler's levee was with the butcher's son, Pierre Laval. But the dealings were vast. Herr Hitler knew all about his guest; knew him for a shrewd lawyer-politician who had swung rightward with the years and was out to make a deal for France...