Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basic doctrines of European Socialism up until a few years ago were internationalism, disarmament, pacifism. Last week a vote at the Socialist Party Congress of France at Montrouge, suburb of Paris, showed dramatically how the rise of European dictatorships has changed those doctrines...
Opposed to M. Blum was his old friend Paul Faure, the party's secretary general, an old-line Socialist. M. Faure said he believed peace should be kept at all costs, no "entangling alliances" with either democracies or dictatorships should be made. Bad as the peace of Munich might have been, M. Faure believed it was better than war. At the end of long debate the new Socialism won: Leon Blum's resolution was endorsed, 4,322-to-2,837, with 1,004 abstaining...
...indefinite stay" was elegant, hollow-eyed Margherita Sarfatti, once a great personal friend and professional colleague of Benito Mussolini, now in disgrace in Italy because her family, although old honored and Venetian, is also Jewish. Margherita and Benito met when she was art critic and he editor of the Socialist Avanti in Milan, long before he became famous. Through the comparatively tranquil late '20s and up until 1935, when the Duce made most of his private income by writing for the Hearst newspapers, Madame Sarfatti was his "ghost" and manager. When the Dictator wanted a raise from Hearst...
...turn the Reich inside out. Unemployment was solved by: 1) a far-reaching program of public works; 2) an intense rearmament program, including a huge standing army; 3) enforced labor in the service of the State (the German Labor Corps); 4) putting political enemies and Jewish, Communist and Socialist jobholders in concentration camps...
What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to Germany in less than six years was applauded wildly and ecstatically by most Germans. He lifted the nation from post-War defeatism. Under the swastika Germany was unified. His was no ordinary dictatorship, but rather one of great energy and magnificent planning. The "socialist" part of National Socialism might be scoffed at by hard-&-fast Marxists, but the Nazi movement nevertheless had a mass basis. The 1,500 miles of magnificent highways built, schemes for cheap cars and simple workers' benefits, grandiose plans for rebuilding German cities made Germans burst with pride. Germans might...