Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France's left-wing leaders trimmed their sails to the prevailing wind. The Communists came about with their usual adroitness. They dropped the "Thorez to Power!" slogan, issued a manifesto with the new line: "Republican unity at all costs!" Wrote Socialist Secretary General Daniel Mayer in the Party organ, Le Populaire: "The Socialist Party is ready once again to strive for conciliation of all Republicans...
...corpses so decomposed that they were no longer horrible. They called to men with notebooks: "One handkerchief marked with a K, one pair of glasses." Then, enthusiastically, "Here is his passport, his name is Piotr Kowalski." In another trench was all that was mortal of Mieczyslaw Niedzialkowski, a Warsaw Socialist editor who had loved strong argument and strong drink and who, in 1939, had organized the workers' brigades that helped defend his city. Last week the workmen built him a little coffin and laid a few flowers...
...London, Socialist Silkin smoothly explained, was smothering in its own amorphous bulk. To relieve congestion the Government planned a series of new satellite towns, each with its own factory, home and business districts divided by parklike "green belts." The population of Stevenage would rise from 6,000 to 60,000. It would lose the picture-book aspect it had worn since 1281, when it was chartered to the Abbot of St. Peter's, Westminster. Stevenage would be new, up-to-date...
...glorious Irish language had ever known, although to be sure he hardly spoke a word of it himself. Indeed, a famous man, a "sure sage, with almost all the priests applaudin' "; and him a Protestant, too ("make way, there-silence-"). And standing nearby was Jim Connolly, "the renowned Socialist leadher," author of Socialism Made Easy ("if you knew all you should know, you wouldn't have task"). And standing on the other side was Arthur Griffith, little and squat, spectacles on his nose, a dark green velour hat stuck on his head, "the great man with the brain...
...Explained O'Casey the other day, talking in his Devonshire home: "After all, I've been a Communist for 25 years, which is half a lifetime." But, he added: "I am almost a supporter of all parties, whether Tory or Liberal, Socialist or Catholic, Mohammedan, Buddhist or Labor. All my life I've been in the struggle to see things improved, which is what everyone else is trying to do too, isn't it?" His latest play, Red Roses for Me, produced in suburban London in February, is about the Dublin transport strike of 1913. Said...