Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulp forests and a fleet of vessels that still supply the Trib with paper. But the cousins seldom saw eye to eye. Though he bitterly condemned the idle rich, Bertie reveled in his own aristocratic background; Patterson, a turtleneck sweater man at heart, rebelled against it, became an active Socialist. While he rode the streetcars of Chicago, rubbing shoulders with his readers, cousin Bertie rode to hounds...
...seat of the uproar was a familiar but far from extinct political volcano: the conflict over state-school funds between Socialists and anticlericals on the one hand and Belgian Catholics on the other. Last year, when the present Liberal-Socialist government came into office, Socialist Leo Collard, the new Minister of Education, quickly made it clear that he intended to favor secular schools in the allotment of state education subsidies. In the previous Catholic government the principle of equal treatment had been applied to state schools, with some 712,000 pupils, and Catholic schools, with...
...minor tumult of Catholic students in Brussels' streets, then a one-day "strike" of 900,000 Catholic pupils throughout the country. Theo Lefevre, president of the Social Christian (Catholic) Party, next called for a "peaceful and dignified" mass demonstration in the capital at week's end. Alarmed, Socialist Premier Achille van Acker formally banned the demonstration, ordered the railroads to cancel 100 special trains chartered to bring Catholics to the capital. The Catholics simply turned to ordinary trains, cars, buses, or took off on foot, and for a traffic-clogging 24 hours streamed into Brussels by the thousands...
...fortnight ago that Canadian neutrality would be "unthinkable" if the U.S. were at war, was evidently thinking hard about it last week -and making a few qualifications. Pearson's afterthought came out in a foreign-policy debate in Parliament, when he was under attack by opposition CCF (Socialist) members for following the U.S. too closely, and by Tory and Social Credit critics who feel that Canadian support of the U.S. is not forthright enough...
Comfort to the Enemy. CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell was equally critical for a different reason; he thought Pearson had gone too far in support of the U.S. "I do not want to see this country dragged into a war by [U.S.] policies," cried Socialist Coldwell. "It is about time that this government.. . spoke out against [them...