Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that is not the point of view of the Soviet leaders. They regard themselves as custodians of the future of the world. In their opinion, everything is going their way; as leaders of a socialist state with a Communist goal, they regard themselves as the advance agents of manifest destiny. In Poland* and the Balkans they believe that they are helping manifest destiny along, although the resistance is terrific from the "unenlightened," who are in a vast majority...
...court of law, not in the legislature. The Reds promptly let go with shrill invective. Pierre Hervé, Communist intellectual, flung "Vichyite!" at Rightist André Mutter. The wizened but agile editor leaped up and started across the floor with fists doubled. One-armed André Le Trocquer, Socialist ex-Minister of the Interior, and two stiff-shirted, bechained ushers restrained Mutter. Meanwhile, the bedlam grew. The 150 members of Bidault's M.R.P. rose as one man and nonchalantly strolled out. ("We will not stick around while debate sinks to such levels...
Another National Socialist, grey, diminutive Jaroslav Stransky, was awarded the important Education Ministry, formerly held by the Reds. An ex-professor of criminal law and a newspaper editor with iron nerves, he was unlikely to let the Communists push him around. To illustrate the Stransky calm, friends tell how he took the fall of Paris in 1940. During the mad scramble of flight, he went for a quiet stroll along the Champs-Elysées, where he ran into the well-known Czech pianist, Rudolf Firkusny. Stransky said he had wanted to ask Firkusny's advice on a problem...
Herbert George Wells, 79, Britain's cantankerous, senescent pamphleteer-historian, dug into his files, came out swinging with an updated version of a favorite theme: an attack on the royal family. In an article in the diminutive weekly Socialist Leader, he raised a pointed question: was the King involved in Mussolini's prewar financial support of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley? If so, "there is every reason why the House of Hanover should follow the House of Savoy into exile...
When the French got their country back, any paper which had appeared during the occupation was suppressed. Of the big prewar Parisian papers, only a handful (notably the Communist L'Humanité and the Socialist Le Populaire, which were suppressed, and the conservative Le Figaro, which had scuttled itself rather than publish under Nazi rule) are left...