Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down on the flat roof of the Livadia Palace at Yalta. They found someone else already there: a statuesque female figure, crouching, with her eye glued to one of the holes in the roof (it had been through the Russian Revolution, three years of civil war, 21 years of Socialist reconstruction, the German invasion and the Russian reoccupation...
...Paul divorced his Jewish wife, who was later sent to her death in the Riga concentration camp. In 1945, the Americans appointed Dr. Paul mayor of Gera in Thuringia. When the Russians took over Gera, Dr. Paul received them in flag-bedecked streets. He joined the Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity Party and was soon appointed minister president of Thuringia...
Force Ouvrière, the anti-Communist movement within the Communist-bossed C.G.T. (TIME, Dec. 22), last week called an "extraordinary national conference" in Paris. Some 250 delegates crowded into a bare, smallish meeting hall on the Left Bank. Pouchy old Léon Jouhaux, Socialist co-secretary-general of the C.G.T., sat near a radiator to keep warm. He wore a grey sweater under his blue suit, and a grey hat pulled over his eyes. Old Léon has a bad heart and he looked tired...
Spry as a bandersnatch, the Red Dean retorted: ". . . It is important to remember that I was appointed successively to two dignified positions in the Anglican Church, first as Dean of Manchester [1924], and then as Dean of Canterbury [1931], by a Socialist Prime Minister*, and was appointed precisely because I had long urged that Socialism was, in my view, not only scientific but the logical consequence in our age of Christian morality...
...That Christian spokesmanship, placed at this heart of English-speaking Christendom, was the Socialist Prime Minister's deliberate intention. That was also my desire. That is my right. That is my responsibility. And I am justified in the discharge of that responsibility to use all the weight that the honored name of Canterbury lends...