Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other reactions. Typical in its own way was that of the lion-baiting Chicago Tribune, which commented: "Those of us who do not share the socialist outlook can at least rejoice that the election marks a wholesome reduction in the influence of the aristocracy in government." U.S. labor, to a man, sent its congratulations...
...fact that the winning party was also a socialist party had its shock, too. Said Mayor J. A. Horger of Hondo, Tex. (pop. 2,500): "I was disappointed. I think they should have kept him in office. I don't favor this socialism and such." The New York Daily News, which has no love for socialists, interpreted it all as an unseemly British bender...
...French right-wingers the percentage seemed excessive. Cried conservative assemblymen: the proposed taxes would kill private enterprise and the incentive to save. Sneered Socialist Jules Moch: the proposed taxes were "too timid and too late." Growled Communist boss Jacques JDuclos: Minister Pleven was "toadying to the money interests...
Mumbled Léon Blum, 73, Socialist Premier of France's Popular Front Government (1936-37): "The Marshal . . . used his personality . . . and his prestige to lead France into shame. ... I call that treason." (Twice Léon Blum broke down and cried. The Marshal, who once tried Blum for war guilt at Riom, eyed him without visible emotion...
Just before the British elections 100 American newspapers were offered an article by Clement Attlee outlining his socialist policies. Five papers-the New York Herald Tribune, the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Cleveland Plain Dealer the Toronto Star, and the Chicago Sun-bought and printed it; the other 95 turned it down. Explanation by some who rejected the article: it was a little outside the main trend of events...