Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening session. The big clock over the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons was a few ticks short of 9:30. The Government's most extensive socialist measure yet-nationalization of almost all of Britain's privately owned inland transport-was in the bag, and everybody knew...
...Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier called his precarious coalition Cabinet into an emergency session in the ornate Hotel Matignon. The five Communist ministers sat grim and silent. Thorez intently studied the gilt cherubs on the ceiling. Said Ramadier: "I ask you not to reverse a policy which is the right one for the nation...
Temperatures ran high. Socialist Minister of the Interior Edouard Depreux had police reinforcements patrolling the center of Paris all night. Radio stations received instructions on what to do in case of sabotage. President of the Republic Auriol was away in Africa (see below), and his standin, good, grey Edouard Herriot, was abed in Lyons with acute phlebitis. In the absence of Auriol or Herriot, the First Vice President of the Assembly, Communist Jacques Duclos, would be interim President of the Republic. Panicky M.R.P. Minister of Justice Pierre-Henri Teitgen sent a special plane to bring Herriot to Paris...
...Comando lo!" Across in Anticoli, there were complications. Local Socialist Leader Carlo Toppi, a jolly, moonfaced sculptor, wasn't quite strong enough to get himself made mayor. During the campaign he had become so excited painting emblems on the town's walls, that he wasn't sure any more that there was a difference between Socialists and Communists. The local Communists suggested that Anticoli needed a mayor with high contacts in Rome itself. Toppi agreed, and Anticoli proudly selected as its mayor a Communist from Rome. His job was that of porter at the Air Ministry...
...short book published this week, a Presbyterian minister from socialist New Zealand has done his best to bring two strong faiths-Marxism and Christianity -within hailing distance of each other. But Alexander Miller's The Christian Significance of Karl Marx (Macmillan; $1.75) is not likely to convert many Christians to Communism...