Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their small, gilded chamber at Westminster early last week, peers heard a favorite Socialist boast repeated. White-haired Viscount Addison, Laborite leader of the House of Lords, exulted: "It is a remarkable fact-indeed it is an unprecedented fact-that this government, with their large majority in the House of Commons, after two and a half years have not lost a single by-election...
...Many a Socialist pooh-poohed the result, but from the Manchester Guardian, Labor's wise friend, came a sharp, cautioning admonition: "An astonishing period of immunity from the natural ills of the political flesh is over. . . . Camlachie's chief warning is. . . that a government candidate cannot even rouse the slums...
...Socialist Premier Cyrankiewicz was smugly happy himself. At the customary Kremlin banquet, more than half the members of the busy Politburo had turned up-an unusual honor. Moreover, he had had an hour's visit with Stalin, who was in a big-brotherly mood. What had they talked about? Soon after the Polish mission got back, accounts began to go around: they had chattered about the world situation and about left-wing socialism; Stalin believed that there was a place for socialists in a "people's democracy" if they stay far enough left; Stalin did not believe there...
...delegates voted. Less than 1% agreed with Lombardo. The union with the new popular front was consummated. Italy's Socialists had crawled down the lion's throat. The combined Socialist-Communist Parties had at least a fair chance of winning in the April elections...
These days, with the Economist sharply critical of government bungling, it gets little but dirty digs from leftist Laborites (last week the Socialist Tribune called it the "young Tories' weekly bible"). But the Economist, generally conservative in its economics and liberal in its politics, does not oppose efficient state planning. It just thinks that freedom is more efficient than the order imposed by Labor's unimaginative, often inefficient state...