Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRITAIN'S general election comes up May 26, and the Conservative and Labor (Socialist) Parties published their platform this week. Sir Anthony Eden's Conservatives utter a set of pious bromides about their love of peace and determination to avoid war. To that end, they propose to seek early talks with the Kremlin mob on easing world tensions. Nothing is said about the Kremlin mob showing evidence of good faith before such talks are held. The Conservatives hint broadly that they'll heed the Socialists' demand to cut the conscription period from the present two years...
...listener he did not take by storm was Novelist-Playwright J. B. Priestley, who analyzed his first experience of Evangelist Graham (on TV) for the New Statesman & Nation, a journal that distrusts Heaven almost as much as it does the United States of America. Socialist-minded Observer Priestley, who in his stories has shown himself fascinated with the supernatural, found Billy just another example of the made-in-U.S.A. world that Britons are forced to live...
Died. Arthur ("Uncle Arthur") Deakin, 64, Socialist head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Britain's largest labor union (1,300,000 members), onetime chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress and one of the Labor Party's chief anti-Bevanites; after collapsing while addressing a May Day rally; in Leicester, England. Anti-Communist Deakin played a leading part last week in averting a threatened strike of 65,000 British railworkers...
Died. Frank F. Merriam, 89, onetime (1934-39) Republican governor of California; of a heart attack; at Long Beach, Calif. Succeeding James Rolph Jr. in 1934, Merriam used the National Guard to squelch a San Francisco longshoremen's strike, that fall trounced Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair in a bitterly fought gubernatorial campaign...
...World Socialist Party of Boston issued a challenge to the Debate Council Friday to defend the negative side of next Friday's Yale topic: "Resolved, That the inheritance of wealth is against the best interests of society...