Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberals, has a clear majority to conduct the day-to-day business of governing. But he does not have the two-thirds majority necessary for changes in the constitution. A leftward swing in national sentiment chopped another 21 seats away from the Liberals and transferred them to the two Socialist groups. The Socialists differ on many issues (the left-wing group often runs close to the Communist line), but they emphatically agree in their opposition to Japanese rearmament. Counting miscellaneous left-wing Deputies (among them two Communists), the Socialists can block any amendment to the Mac-Arthur constitution. This...
...Socialist after Socialist harped on Wehner's theme, which stirs deep passions in Germany and is well suited to a party that is searching for an emotional issue, and being in opposition, need not worry about having to carry out what it advocates. A Berlin Socialist argued for Bündnisfreiheit (freedom from alliances...
There are two military blocs, he said. "Therefore we must think of something else." The Socialist Party's military expert thought Germany should join with the Scandinavian countries, Austria, India and "possibly" Japan in a belt of states to keep the two great power blocs apart. Dr. Linus Kather, a member of the Refugee Party which a year ago was advocating a war of liberation and has since swung full circle, said the only way the Germans could win back the eastern territories now occupied by Red Poland is by remaining "genuinely neutral...
Pierre Mendès-France talked the language of action, used such expressions as "original," "daring," "the need for a psychological shock." "You must choose," was his challenge to the Assembly. His fellow Radical Socialist Edgar Faure talks the language of moderation and gradualism, speaks of "carom shots," and "economic billiards." "If you can't get over an obstacle, go around it," he likes to say. Last week the French Assembly chose to go around with Faure...
...scores of Government translators daily censor or confiscate Russian publications does in itself sufficiently resemble Soviet thought-control practices. But worse that that, under the existing legislation there is apparently nothing to prevent the Post Office, with the Attorney General's permission, from widening the censorship list to include socialist literature or just unpatriotic propaganda originating abroad. Universities also are exposed to the whims of Washington bureaucrats, because at the present time it is only through the permission of the Post Office that these institutions can receive Russian literature for research purposes...