Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendès-France's own party, the large (75 Deputies), lumpy, "moderate" Radical Socialist Party often seems less a party than an agglomeration of individualists, whose main bonds are anticlericalism, wine and good eating. The Radicals include able Premier Edgar Faure, who fears a Mendes comeback. They include such other ex-Premiers as slothlike Henri Queuille, the father of immobilisme; Edouard Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mend...
...ensuing debate, Praja Socialist Leader J.B. Kripalani, 66, had a word of warning about the new law. "Indian women are not in favor of divorce-" said he cautiously. Then, looking up and seeing his wife (who is also a Member of Parliament) nodding her head. Kripalani took courage and made his point: "If the Law Minister had read psychology, he would not have provided for divorce in cases of adultery. One slip on your part does not mean that you do not desire your wife. There must be habitual unfaithfulness before divorce...
...woke up with two heads: the Provisional Government led by Social Revolutionary Alexander Kerensky, with the ideal of a Western-style democratic regime; and the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, a clashing spectrum of radical parties (mostly Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries, with a few Bolsheviks) holding Socialist aims. On this Socialist family drama, Author Sukhanov lavishes the meticulous attention which an American sometimes devotes to a close pennant race. He also studs his chronicle with high-level vignettes. Among the more vivid...
...crowd. "Lenin came, or rather ran, into the waiting room. He wore a round cap, his face looked frozen, and there was a magnificent bouquet in his hands." Lenin toys with his flowers, stares at the ceiling, and gives a short pep talk, ending with "Long live the worldwide Socialist revolution...
...World Socialist Party, which has been debating against University teams for 14 years, are seeking "the introduction of world socialism based on common ownership and democratic control...