Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, there was the British election, which increased the Conservative Party's House of Commons voting majority from 18 to 59 seats. The Labor Party, whose powerful left wing is passionately anti-American, went down to a staggering defeat. While the U.S. can and has worked with both Socialist and Conservative governments in Great Britain, the prospects for close cooperation in cold war are far better with the Conservatives in power. By strengthening their Conservative government, the voters of Great Britain increased the strength and stability of the Western alliance...
...election was that Labor failed to deliver its vote. In 1951, when losing to Churchill, Labor actually got a bigger popular vote. This year 1,842,889 fewer voters went to the polls, and three-fourths of the absentees, according to the experts, were people who usually vote Socialist. Even so, Labor got 46.3% of the less than 27,000,000 votes. It represents a strong sentiment in the nation, but it lacks leadership, and its leadership lacks a program. Cockney Herbert Morrison, 67, a cheerful and clever but not very profound man, is in line for Attlee...
...last press conference took up, without specifically condemning, the notion of neutral armed states. Reassurances flowed in from Washington last week, but der Alte was still anxious to forestall any Big Four notion that German unity might be bought with German neutrality. In this he was supported by his Socialist opponents, who developed a belated suspicion of neutrality as soon as German neutrality became remotely a possibility. "The establishment of a belt of neutral but armed states in [Europe]," said Adenauer, "would mean the end of West European Union, of any kind of European integration and of NATO. The balance...
...Socialist-run Tourcoing, an industrial town with 80,000 inhabitants, the Socialist Youth Federation is the largest political group for younger workers, students and office employees; it has 100 members. The Communists confess to the same trouble among their faithful. Their movement, camouflaged under the name Union of Republican Youth of France, has 100,000 members, many of them uncertain of their political sentiments. "You just can't talk politics directly to youth these days," explains a young Communist leader. "Take an issue like compulsory military service. Of course we're opposed in principle to a large army...
...underdog. Britishers seem fairly satisfied with the situation at home and hopeful about affairs abroad. With this "complacency" against them, Labourites have been doing their best to create crisis, that is, in the imagination of that small but decisive group of uncommitted voters who do not vote Tory or Socialist come what may. Eventually, their main weapon against the Conservatives has been the high cost of living costs. They have pointed out that, during their own regime at 1941 to 1951, their policy of a "fair share" gave the British people the lowest living costs in Western Europe. Because...