Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day, when Communist Minister of the Interior Vaclav Nosek "discovered" the National Socialist Party's conspiracy against the state, Prague shivered with cold and fright. Truckloads of armed police with brand-new automatic rifles rumbled through the streets. Opposition leaders were arrested and Parliament, scheduled to meet next day, postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain...
...they occupied all the ministries not yet in charge of Communists. President Benes wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Czech Communist party: "I have been thinking ... I am trying to see clearly. ... I feel the people's will is to achieve a progressive and really socialist life through peaceful and orderly means. . . . You know my sincerely democratic creed. I cannot but stay faithful to this creed even at this moment. ... I beg of you ... let us all together begin negotiations again...
...Third Day. At 9:30 a.m. Premier Gottwald called on President Benes at Hradcany Castle to present a list of the new cabinet ministers (twelve Communists, two Socialists and eight miscellaneous "safe" men). Ninety minutes later, the Czech radio triumphantly announced that the President had accepted the new cabinet. The President's office promptly denied this. The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning. Loudspeaker trucks proclaimed that his pro-Communist rival Zdenek Fierlinger had resumed leadership of the Socialist Party. This meant that the Communists could...
Minister of the Interior Vrjö Leino, boss of the "Valpo" or political police, countered with orders for tighter border control. But Finland's border remained wide open to an influx of Finnish Communist agents from Otto Kuusinen's nearby Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. Election of delegates to the Finnish Diet was scheduled for July. At present, in a bloc with the Socialist Union party, Communists control 51 of its 200 seats. But in recent local elections Communist candidates have been losing ground. If the Communists intended to cement control, the time...
Love, Mercy & Respect. Though retaining his Jewish faith and socialist belief, Gollancz has here written a fiery, almost transported plea for a return to the ways of the early Christians. Political salvation is possible, he thunders, only if based on a union of traditional religious ethics and the secular humanist tradition of the West. A way of life based on unswerving devotion to love, mercy and respect for human personality is the only vision that can save modern man from total destruction...