Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament is dissolved, which might happen at any time with Charles de Gaulle waiting in the wings, the constitution provides that the Assembly president shall take over as "acting Premier" until a new government is formed. That would be Radical Socialist Edouard Herriot of Lyon, reliable as an oak, who was re-elected to the presidency last week. But M. Herriot is old and ailing. If he were too ill to serve, the first vice president would take over. Therefore, reasoned the Assembly majority, Jacques Duclos must not again be first vice president...
Next day the non-Communists quickly elected their ticket, giving the first vice presidency to a Socialist, the second to a Popular Republican. The Cocos got the third and fourth spots. Furious and frustrated, they said they would not accept. When Foreign Minister Georges Bidault appeared to say a few words, they advised him to run away and drink his U.S. Coca-Cola, chew his U.S. chewing...
...editing of the resolutions, C.I.T.'s newly elected president, mild-mannered Chilean Socialist Bernardo Ibáñez, would have a big voice. Said he: "We are absolutely not going to use C.I.T. as a political instrument . . . the way Lombardo and the Communists used C.T.A.L. [the Latin American Federation of Labor]. We aim only at bettering the workers of America...
Readers heard a new tone in the voice of London's Socialist Tribune. In its "declaration of war" which charted its course for the new year there was a more rhetorical and more commanding note. Tribune promised to devote the year to "lambasting the Tories, exposing humbug, discrediting frauds. . . . We do not propose to be hustled into a new authoritarianism by the shrieks of the Communists...
Tribune needed Foot. The weekly, spokesman for a highly placed Socialist group, boasted the best ministerial connections. But Fleet Street had long gossiped that Tribune's position was the weakest of the "big five" weekend papers.* Sir Stafford Cripps, co-founder of Tribune in 1937, had long since stopped backing it. It had dipped into the red, and barely held its 18,000 circulation. The next six months might settle Tribune's fate...