Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make Communists look more peaceful and disarming to the neutrals of Asia and the uncommitted Arab world. (India's Nehru has already pronounced Moscow's changes "welcomed in every way.") By their acceptance of peaceful change, moreover, Khrushchev & Co. hope to make time with Socialists in France and Italy. They may succeed with a new generation, but older Socialists are likely to ask why not a Popular Front on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and where are the Russian, Polish, Czech and Rumanian Socialist leaders of yesteryear...
This collapse of the will to resist surprised even the Communists themselves, who suddenly revised their calculations upward. In July Mao predicted that the New China was about to witness the "high tide of the great socialist revolution." In January of this year he said the tide was running. Last July Mao announced that only 16.9 million of the no million "peasant households" had been forced into producer cooperatives; by December he was able to announce that "more than 60% of peasant families" were in cooperatives-an astonishing increase of 53.1 million peasant families in six months...
Macmillan's move on the householder's budget brought cries of "Shame!" from the Socialist benches. "How prosperity hurts under the Tories!" mocked the Laborite Daily Herald. Other critics, however, pointed out that while cutting food subsidies, the Tory government was simultaneously adding $280 million to the costs of Britain's welfare state by increasing health and education services...
...President. The President-elect's first move was to pick his defeated rival, Social Democrat Karl-August Fagerholm, to form the new government. Finns took this as fresh evidence that Kekkonen is his country's shrewdest politician. If the unions strike, they will be striking against a Socialist Premier...
...started out by telling the Communists: "The difference between you and me is the difference between a corpse and a living man," Bhave had come a long way. He still has the support of Socialist Leader Jaya Prakash Narayan (the most respected politician in India after Nehru), who had quit politics under the spell of Bhave's earlier idealism. But Narayan himself is deeply disturbed by the failures of redistribution, and now demands that every Indian university student compulsorily devote one year to Bhoodan work. Said Narayan last week: "We must be quick, or those who believe in violence...