Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essential rightness. At 79, and still carrying a burden that might cripple a man half his age, the indomitable old Chancellor had made his mark on history. Almost singlehanded, in the face of ruthlessly hard and skillfully soft Soviet pressure, in the face of French letdowns and Socialist opposition at home, he delivered to the West the long-sought covenant of German alliance...
...action, staging "a fighting day for the whole nation" in the cities of the Eastern zone. A delegation of "East German mothers" arrived in Bonn and joined a crowd of Ruhr rowdies who paraded around chanting, "Adenauer is following in Hitler's footsteps-throw him out." The Socialist trade unions of Munich turned out 25,000 members carrying banners with the slogan: "We don't want to die for dollars or rubles...
...About Neutrality. There were two items on the agenda: 1) the Paris accords proper, restoring German sovereignty and inviting rearmament in NATO, and 2) the much-abused Saar agreement, signed by Adenauer and Mendès-France (TIME, Nov. 1). The Paris accords came first, and at once the Socialists weighed in with the made-in-Moscow argument that they have chosen to regard as their own: ratification of rearmament means the end of all hope of German reunification. Ex-Communist Herbert Wehner, 48, mastermind of the Socialist left wing (TIME, Feb. 28), talked up a Geneva-style conference...
...longer depend on the Supreme Court to save us from the actions of irresponsible legislatures," Howe spoke at a Liberal Union forum on the "Case of the Legless Veteran." James Kutcher, the legless veteran, who was dismissed from the Veterans Administration because of his membership in the Socialist Workers' Party was the other speaker...
Western diplomats are candid in their distrust of Herbert Wehner, and of the interests he serves. They see him as an evil grey eminence in the SPD. But as the shrill Socialist campaign against the Paris accords spread across Germany last week, there could be little doubt that the counsels of Herbert Wehner are in the ascendant in the party hierarchy...