Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubled so many Americans in the past few years. Lang pointed out that he had served during the war in the Intelligence Corps, in what he called "high-grade security work." He had briefly been a member of the British-Soviet Friendship Society, and assistant treasurer of the socialist Haldane Society at a time when many Laborite lawyers had quit in disgust at its espousal of Communist causes (Lang himself quit in 1950 over the society's support of Communist charges of germ warfare in Korea). His wife had been an open member of the Communist Party...
Banker in Buchenwald. Six months ago, when Premier Guy Mollet named Pineau, rather than mercurial Pierre Mendes-France, as Foreign Minister, most of France's Allies were delighted. Here was a Socialist who had strongly supported EDC, staunchly resisted popular-front talk, and was given to saying things like "The American people must know that we love them." The son of an army officer and stepson of playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot] Giraudoux, Pineau had jumped from a promising banking career into the Socialist labor movement after the Bank of France fired him for trying to unionize...
Even before the voters headed for the polls this week, it was a sure thing that Government Candidate Hernán Siles Zuazo would be elected as Bolivia's new President. Reason: three days before the balloting, his only opposition, the Socialist Falange Party, withdrew all its candidates...
Nenni's Communist-linked Socialist Party had won a sizable vote in last month's Italian municipal elections. Its support could help the ruling Christian Democratic coalition to form governments in the more than 100 large Italian cities where no single party now has a clear-cut majority. The Christian Democrats were still spurning Nenni's aid, but Nenni thought that the Social Democrats (now one of three junior partners in the Christian Democratic coalition) might be willing to accept his tainted help. He addressed a letter to "Caro Matteo...
Moltke, heir to all Germany had to offer, repudiated his inheritance. "My whole life long," he wrote to his sons, "I have been fighting against [the] merciless consistency that is latent in the German and that has found its expression in the National Socialist state." To his wife, he wrote: "[They may] take my goods, my honor, my child and wife; the body they may kill; God's truth abideth still, His kingdom is forever...