Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mendes-France are slim. In the course of advocating his sweeping reforms, Mendes made many enemies among the old guard politicians in the Assembly. Mendes, moreover, continued to argue for his policies while out of office and fought a bitter battle with Faure for control of their Radical Socialist party. His eventual victory split the ranks of his own party and isolated possible allies, leaving him without the necessary coalition and election machine...
...when he was Finance Minister. Brazil's João Café Filho has recovered from his November heart attack at least to the point of demanding- without success-that he be given back his job as President. Canada's M. J. Coldwell, leader of the CCF (Socialist Party), was a heart patient three years ago, stayed in politics, and just last week completed a tour in which he made 50 speeches in eight of Canada's ten provinces. Says Coldwell: "My medical reports are excellent, and I never felt better in my life...
...forceful pronouncement of Von Brentano, a figure who has been gaining political stature by the day since he took over the Foreign Ministry six months ago, ended the chatter among some of Adenauer's coalition members about holding "talks" but not "negotiations" with the Russians. Even the Socialist opposition leader Erich Ollenhauer, who like many Germans would like to find a cheap way out if there were one, promised that the Socialists would never agree to reunification except in "freedom and law." The Bundestag voted solidly to uphold Adenauer's policy of "undeviating" solidarity with the West...
...root out its surviving tendencies. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung has made only two big speeches this year. The first, made last summer but published only last month, decreed a drastic stepping-up of farm collectivization (TIME, Dec. 5). The second speech, made six weeks ago, was called "Socialist Transformation of Private Industry and Commerce." It still has not been made public, but its tenor can be judged by a sudden spate of propaganda on the evils of free enterprise. Nanking's Hsinhua Daily took aim at the "lawless bourgeoisie" for using "sugarcoated bullets" in its "attack against...
Most Protestant theologians, for example, are not out-and-out existentialists. Most have not actively indulged in politics on behalf of socialist causes. And most will not nonchalantly remark, when asked about such unusual interests: "Oh yes, I've always been quite unorthodox...