Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy Graham has currently drawn much bigger crowds on his preaching tour of Great Britain than Labour and Conservative campaigners for the oncoming election. But tomorrow polling booths will replace soapboxes and even the pulpit as the center of attention. Tory defenders and Socialist contenders will wage their final battle on each Britisher's ballot. Yet the very fact of Graham's large turnouts suggests that few election issues have been not enough to divert interest from him. Although some Labourites, like Aneurin Bevan, have themselves campaigned as evangelists, the general prediction of both bookies and "univacs" is that Britain...
...sharply favored the Conservatives. The Conservatives were ostensibly united and plainly well organized; the Laborites were divided between Attlee moderates and Nye Bevan rebels. The Tories could point to the highest level of prosperity in Britain's history, achieved while shucking off the controls which war and Socialist experimenting had imposed. The News Chronicle's Gallup poll last week showed a 2½% edge for the Tories, a gain of 2% from late April. But above all, Eden was able to kick off his campaign with a promise of the long-awaited "parley at the summit...
Anthony Eden, gradually working off a slightly ill-at-ease manner and flashing quick, rabbity smiles, eagerly seized the opportunity. "Nothing is more displaced than the Socialist suggestion that we have been dilatory in our approach to Russia," he said. "I have talked across the table with the Russians for many years, probably more than any other man living," said Eden in his home constituency of Warwick and Leamington.* The response emboldened the man who had waited so long and now stood, at last, in the sun. "You must decide on May 26," he said at Reading of the coming...
Time and again, the Communists and their Socialist allies leaped to their feet to applaud and cheer. Premier Scelba sat dourly throughout. Afterwards, new President Gronchi received the Christian Democrats' party boss Amintore Fanfani and told him: "Let's hope my election will bring about a distensione in this country, which I, as chief of state, will do my best to promote." "Distensione" is Italian for easing of tension, and its advocates mean by it not only coexisting with Russia as a nation, but coexisting at home with sweet-talking fellow travelers in an old-style popular front...
...friend, who had known Karpovich when he was preparing for a history professorship at Moscow University and working for the Socialist Revolutionary Party, now had an unusual offer to make. The new provisional government set up under Alexander Kerensky had just appointed him as ambassador to the United States, and he wanted Karpovich to go along as his confidential secretary. Karpovich, however, said no. Indeed he said it again and again during the next two weeks, and finally agreed to make the trip only after his friend promised that they would return within a few months. "Don't bother...