Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saar Basin, and opposition to the dismemberment of Germany unless "the German people express their wish to transform Germany into a federal state." The day after this speech, every newspaper in the French capital blossomed forth with a violent attack on the Soviet, including the organs of the Socialist party and the party of Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos. With this bid for German support and apparent jettisoning of the French, party lines were transcended and French Communists stood with all other Frenchmen in their bitter denunciation of the Soviet Union. Previous to the Molotov speech, Harold Laski...
...heels, proffer cigarets and act toward the Germans with a grave courtesy that many an American officer has not yet learned. In Weimar the reporters went down to the National Theater and found a pale, 26-year-old youth sitting in Goethe's chair. Hans Viehweg became a Socialist after the war, but switched quickly to Communism. Thereafter, his rise was rapid. He served briefly as head of the local radio station, then became head of all Thuringian theaters...
...member of his own Socialist party, Senator Henri Rolin, stubbornly fighting Minister of Justice Adolphe van Glabbeke over a secondary juridical matter, who brought about the downfall of Premier van Acker's Government. When Van Acker demanded a vote of confidence, hotheaded Rolin and two other Socialists abstained, and the Government was overthrown 79-to-78. Smiling Achille beamed: "I am the happiest of men; all my worries are over...
Leon Blum, at the dedication of a monument to Vichy-murdered Georges Mandel in Fontainebleau, came up with a good Gallic symbol of Gallic solidarity: to his political antagonist, Rightist Paul Reynaud, France's Socialist elder statesman gave an unscheduled, non-compulsory buss...
...odds, this was the sharpest British journalistic swerve of the year. A sort of Churchill at the halfway mark (though at the opposite political pole), talented, ambitious Frank Owen had been a Liberal M.P. at 23, the socialist editor of the imperialist Evening Standard at 32, a soldier correspondent at 37. His latest professional hurdle took him from his prewar job with Lord Beaverbrook into the camp of the Beaver's keenest journalistic rival, Lord Rothermere. Some Tory friends of Rothermere's thought he was on a sticky wicket in hiring (for a reported $40,000 a year...