Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort. He was in sympathy with the progress that was being made in his country. He clearly did not support those, reactionary forces which sought to check it. However, after the events of two weeks ago, he saw in Czechoslovakia the beginnings of a new type of society, a socialist society of workers and farmers, one in which the centuries-long cycle of exploitation was to be brought to a close. But this was also a society in which his class and the ideology, of his class could play no part. Admiring its positive achievements but unable to adjust himself...
...Only yesterday I had learned with great relief that Professor Jan Kosak, a strong National Socialist, is not only still Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, but has also been a key figure in organizing the action committees. This would indicate that these committees, which have been described in our press as though they were composed solely of Communists, are apparently much more broadly representative...
...denied correspondents' charges that Greece had no free press. "There is as real a freedom of the press in Greece today," said the official statement, "as there is in the U.S." It was an overstatement. The same day Athens' military governor arrested two editors of the Socialist weekly Mahi. Their offense: printing a clemency petition from political prisoners, and an editorial deploring the execution of former ELAS guerrillas...
...name was Reinhold Niebuhr. He was an Evangelical-pastor, a professor of applied Christianity at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, an editor of Christianity and Crisis, Christianity and Society, contributing editor of the Nation, and an ex-Socialist who was still unflaggingly active in non-Communist leftist movements. He was also the author of countless magazine articles and eleven books on theology. His magnum opus, the two-volume Nature and Destiny of Man, was the most complete statement of his position...
...Liberal. Most U.S. liberals think of Niebuhr as a solid socialist who has some obscure connection with Union Theological Seminary that does not interfere with his political work. Unlike most clergymen in politics, Dr. Niebuhr is a pragmatist. Says James Loeb, secretary of Americans for Democratic Action: "Most so-called liberals are idealists. They let their hearts run away with their heads...