Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling that the West's response is inadequate was widespread last week. Editorialists from London to Rome to San Francisco brooded over it. Konrad Adenauer bemoaned the West's inability to speak with one voice (see below). Britain's Socialist leader, Hugh Gaitskell, visiting the U.S., complained that the West's reactions to new Russian tactics seem "less united, less certain and less clear" than they once were. The cold war may not have thawed, but its terms have changed. Too often the West seems to be answering a challenge no longer posed, or, at least...
...Some of the most brutally frank talk I've ever heard," said Socialist Mollet, emerging from one session...
Midway through his three-day meeting with the Kremlin leaders, Mollet invited the Moscow ambassadors of twelve NATO countries to lunch, to assure them that the Russians now knew they could not split NATO. "It took a Socialist, a man of the left, to convince them," he said. "I fought harder for NATO here in Moscow than I ever did in Paris...
Opposition Tory and C.C.F. (Socialist) parties, which have been accusing the Liberal government of giving too much leeway to U.S. investors, reacted angrily to the proposal to lend tax funds to a U.S.-controlled firm. Both parties immediately launched a filibuster to delay the bill. The government's main reason for backing the U.S. firm is that Trans-Canada has pipe and equipment on hand to begin work immediately. A national election is expected next year, and the Canadian public, the Liberals believe, is more interested in seeing the long-stalled pipeline built than in worrying about the nationality...
Peppery old (71) Socialist Norman Thomas sounded off in Houston. On free enterprise: "All the recent business mergers and consolidations make absurd the old-line talk of free enterprise. The only free enterprise in America today is small boys who shoot marbles for keeps." On the Kelly-Rainier merger "If Grace had married the mayor of Las Vegas, she wouldn't have had to produce a son to keep the place going...