Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large and viable states and six centrally run enclaves, e.g., the capital city of New Delhi. The bill repelled the chaotic factions who have cried for the fragmentation of India along the boundary lines of its 844 languages and dialects. The key move, thought up by Nehru's Socialist and independent opponents and gratefully grasped by him, was to fuse the hostile linguistic factions of Marathas (27.5 million) and Gujrati (17.5 million) into one big, Texas-sized, bilingual State of Bombay...
...Socialist Sympathy. While Western businessmen watched with apprehension, the Soviet Union in less than two years has succeeded in penetrating virtually every key industry in India. Yet Moscow contributes little to India's economy: barely 1% of India's imports in the past year has come from the Iron Curtain countries v. 25% from Britain, 8% from West Germany. While the U.S. has handed Nehru's government $500 million in gifts and loans since 1950, Russia has doled out farm machinery and one Ilyushin-14 airliner, worth in all no more than...
...moment the crowd remained silent in confusion. Then a few quickwitted Christian Democrats began to cheer. They remembered a queer quirk in the Italian electoral law: in case of tie votes, the older man is chosen. And 52-year-old La Pira happens to be 18 months older than Socialist Ramat...
...government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism." Thus in 1933 the founders of Canada's socialist movement, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, set forth their party's basic political aim in their first manifesto. Last week, at a convention in Winnipeg, an older and wiser CCF gave up the goal of uprooting capitalism and adopted a new manifesto recognizing a definite "need for private enterprise...
Despite the protests of old-line socialists, a pair of more practical-minded speakers put the case for the new CCF line. One was a convention visitor, British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman, who reminded his Canadian counterparts that Britain's Labor Party had already acknowledged the need for both private and public enterprise (TIME, July 23). Said Grossman: "Capitalism is not going to collapse." The other socialist plug for free enterprise came from Saskatchewan's CCF Premier Tommy Douglas, who could speak from experience as the head of the only government ever formed by the CCF. Shortly after...