Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Between the two center groups, said Faure, "there is no real opposition on the big problems." His proposition: "a temporary union" of left-and right-wing moderates. The right-wingers let it be known that Mendès was anathema to them, but hinted that they might accept a Socialist like Mollet or Christian Pineau for Premier...
...hard-bargaining Mendès-France and his Socialist ally Mollet turned down Faure's offer, insisted on a chance to form a government of their own. "We have decided not to let ourselves be divided," explained Mollet...
Eighty per cent of the students believed that class hatred exists in Spain, and more than half blamed this on "abuses of the capitalist system." The political and economic solution to Spain's problems, 65% were convinced, must be a "socialist-type regime," and only one student in five thought that this could be achieved through conservative means. The hope of 60% of the students was for a political change that would give them freedom. This 60% was equally divided between monarchists and republicans, while only 20% listed themselves as totalitarians or Falangists...
...decision owed much to the powerful will of David Ben-Gurion, who, at 69, looks like an Old Testament patriarch with white hair foaming up from each side of his thrusting head. A Zionist and Socialist visionary, a prophet who packs a pistol, Ben-Gurion led the republic for its first six years until, frustrated by party niggling in his coalition, he retired to live in the pioneer settlement of Sde Boker on the southern desert. Eleven months ago he dramatically returned to politics on the eve of elections, hoping to win decisive control of Parliament but achieving only...
...Socialist simplicity, he is happiest in the three-room prefab that is still kept for him in the Negev pioneer settlement of Sde Boker. Even in his state residence in Jerusalem, he goes about in shirtsleeves and prefers to eat with his wife, son and daughter-in-law in the kitchen. His wife still cooks his meals and darns his socks. His personality and manners, his leisured kindliness, have remained utterly unchanged by a generation in power. But he likes power, and he knows how to wield it. "The world," says Ben-Gurion, "is not yet accustomed to the revival...