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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since I am first a democrat and then a socialist-in the sense that I am more profoundly convinced of the validity of the democratic ideals than of any specific way of achieving them-I believe in consequence that our main emphasis must fall upon the ideals and practices of political democracy and those measures of socialization and social control that are easily derivable" from it. This means a theory of piecemeal socialism through the democratic process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: TOTALITARIAN LIBERALISM | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...tried, amidst jeers, to block the steamroller. Although he and 25 members of his party, now the sole opposition in Parliament, dropped blank votes in the basket, the result was foregone. Next day Bierut named husky, hard-faced, 35-year-old Josef Cyrankiewicz, an able and energetic left-wing Socialist, as Premier. Egg-bald Cyrankiewicz is a onetime artillery officer who was liberated by U.S. troops from the infamous German prison camp at Mauthausen. He has come up fast. Right-wing Socialists accuse him of double-crossing them and swinging to the left after advising them not to. He gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: We Are All Gentlemen | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...implications--the idea that the dismal period of the Twenties, roaring boom and tragic bust, will be repeated. Fritz Sternberg not only believes that the future will follow the same cycle, but that this time the depression will provide the coup de grace of the whole capitalist world. A socialist of the German stripe, non-Communist, but more in sympathy with their viewpoint and efforts than with those of the "reactionary capitalists," it is not difficult to pick out the haven he would seek in the storm. "The Coming Crisis" points the way to a socialist state with reservations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

Victor's Spoils. The election brought the socialist weekly an embarrassing wealth of ministerial connections, and at first it leaned over backward to avoid taking advantage of it. Then, says Jennie Lee, "we said 'the hell with it'; anything we got by our own efforts we'd print, and that's what we do now." Now that they are breaking even, they pay their contributors a guinea a column. Says one editor: "It varies only for our really distinguished ones, who are allowed (as H. G. Wells and G. B. Shaw were) to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tribune's Ten | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...rule which forbids Ministers to write for publication, got into the anniversary number with what was euphemistically called an "interview." He gave it with a chip on his left shoulder: "We have traveled quite a distance from those frustrated days in Edinburgh. . . . But we have not yet a Socialist Britain. . . . In defending the Government where . . . justified, Tribune is not called upon equally to defend that portion of private enterprise that our political strategy leaves for the moment untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tribune's Ten | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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