Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What the Czech people really want is . . . planned socialist economy and political freedom. The entire country has moved to the left. . . . The large industrial concerns are not popular. . . . The Communists . . . are at the moment in the leading role and are extremely dynamic...
Bierut. becomes one of three members of a presidential council. The other two: ailing Wincenty Witos, leader of the Peasant Party, and bearded Nationalist Stanislaw Grabski, 74. Edward Osubka-Morawski, 40, a Socialist who has recently worked in close harmony with Moscow, remains as 'Premier. As Deputy Premier, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk takes an unexpectedly subordinate role...
...Russian news reports suggested that another development of immense importance to Czechoslovakia was up for discussion in Moscow: the Communist. Social Democratic and People's Socialist parties had formed a Czech "National Bloc" on the familiar "National Front" pattern of other countries in Russia's sphere. Czech labor unions, professional workers and technicians, farmers, and intellectuals were to be united in centrally controlled organizations allied with the "National Bloc." If liberation was bringing freedom to the Czechs, it was of a kind unknown to them before the old freedom collapsed...
...issue, the U.S. and Britain had beat a partial retreat. Originally they said they would not resume negotiations with Moscow until the Poles were released or their arrest satisfactorily explained; now they had compromised. But on this point, the London delegates were not inclined to accept a compromise. Said Socialist ex-Minister of Labor Jan Stanczyk: "This puts us in a terrible position. How can we honestly negotiate in Moscow while our comrades are in jail somewhere near...
Leopold III, King of the Belgians, suddenly recovered his health. From Salzburg he sent word that he was coming home. Since Socialist Premier Achille Van Acker's Government had virtually barred the sovereign's return (TIME, May 21), Leopold's decision plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis...