Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. José P. Tamborini. 69, physician, sometime translator, coalition candidate (Communist-Socialist-Radical) in the stormy 1946 Argentine presidential election, in which he was resoundingly defeated by the now deposed strongman Juan Peron (see THE HEMISPHERE); in Buenos Aires...
...chosen to make the appeal was barrel-shaped Carlo Schmid, the only Socialist in the German delegation, and at times an eloquent man. Said Carlo Schmid directly to the impassive pair, Khrushchev and Bulganin: "Every man, woman and child in Germany is behind Dr. Adenauer's attempt to obtain the release of these missing Germans." Nikita Khrushchev was impressed. Perhaps, after all, there is a basis on which to do business, he told the German delegates...
Some anti-Gaitskell Laborites think that just such a man is Alfred Robens, 44, a burly, longtime trade unionist with a flat North-Country accent and a broad-humored Lancashire wife. A veteran parliamentarian and nimble committeeman, "Alf" served as Minister of Labor in the last Socialist government, and was designated "Foreign Secretary" in the "shadow Cabinet" that would theoretically take over from the Tories if Labor wins the next election. There is talk of grooming Robens for bigger things...
Clean Sweep. More than half a million' others, 60% of the electorate, also voted. Their ballots gave a clean sweep to the firmly anti-Communist Sangkum (Socialist People's Community) Party, organized only six months ago by popular, chubby 32-year-old ex-King Norodom Sihanouk. The neutralist Democratic Party, which controlled the last National Assembly before its dissolution in 1952, polled a mere 18% of the votes. The Communists got almost none except in their stronghold of Kampot, shared with other minor parties only some 12%. Sangkum candidates won all 91 seats in the new Assembly...
Died. Walter Riehl, 73, Austrian founder of the German National Socialist Workers' Party, which was first (1918) to use the swastika as a party emblem, was one of the splinter groups later welded by Hitler into the Nazi movement; of a heart attack; in Vienna...