Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moment of Truth. The dramatic moment came when ex-Premier René Mayer, an influential industrialist (identified with the Rothschild interests) and a member of Mendès' own Radical Socialist Party, took the rostrum. Mayer, whose constituency is Constantine in Algeria, was against Mendès' attempts to negotiate a North African settlement with the nationalist rebels. He was plainly on the side of the French settlers, and brushed aside talk of cruelty on the part of the French forces. "Repression always has a cruel aspect," he said coolly. "But this time it has been just...
...named as one of a previously unheard-of subcommittee (the others: Zhdanov and Shcherbakov, both deceased, and Bulganin) to direct military policy during World War II. On his 60th birthday (April 17, 1954) he graciously accepted the Order of Lenin (his fourth) and was made a Hero of Socialist Labor. At a Moscow reception he told a British newsman: "Churchill speaks for Britain, I speak for the Soviet Union...
...Socialists seized on Russia's declaration of peace. "It must be closely studied," cried Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer, who says the same thing practically every time Moscow opens its mouth. He added: "We must give priority to the unification of our country over lasting ties with the West." One night last week in Frankfurt, Socialists, in concert with the powerful trade-union movement (6,000,000 members), held the first of what they promised will be 1,000 meetings against rearmament in the next month...
...Stump. Alarmed by the trend, Adenauer summoned coalition leaders and expressed his concern over "the echo" which Moscow's wiles are producing in the West German population. He fired off an open letter to Socialist Ollenhauer warning that the Socialist course might land Germany "between two stools...without friends." Then the 79-year-old Chancellor announced that he too would stump the country in the coming month, to warn Germans against putting too much faith in echoes...
...splintered confusion in the French Assembly, the executive com mittee of the Socialist Party voted last week to expel 16 Deputies who defied party orders by voting against both EDC and the Paris accords. The Socialists, with 105 seats in the Assembly, are the largest single party in the Assembly. If the 16 rebels refuse to confess their sins and return contritely to the fold, the largest single party in the Assembly will then be the Communists (98 Deputies...