Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brings back from Europe, the native continent of socialism, two contrasted impressions. Parties with the socialist or labor label are in political control of Norway, Sweden and Denmark and are strong partners in coalition governments in Belgium and The Netherlands. The Labor Party is Her Majesty's Opposition in Great Britain, and its chances of coming into power are about fifty-fifty. The Social Democrats are the strongest single party in opposition to Chancellor Adenauer. But socialism as a secular faith, possessed of a set of infallible principles capable of curing all the ills of the economic order...
...Europe one sees, behind an imposing façade of socialist voting strength, symptoms of doubt, confusion and intellectual decay. So far as Karl Marx is remembered at all, there is a growing realization that, far from being an infallible prophet, history has proved him a pretentious humbug, dismally wrong in some of his most fundamental dogmas...
...developments brought the Djilas affair back to full-and unexpected -life. From his enforced retirement in Belgrade (on a $165-a-month pension), Milovan Djilas last week took the extraordinary step of speaking out against the Tito regime. He called for the formation of a new "democratic-socialist" party to contest Tito's one-party rule...
...strode off to a fashionable garden party. Behind him through lines of bowing guests, like a plainly dressed retainer showing off a gorgeous bull mastiff, came India's Jawaharlal Nehru. After several days of such festivity, the Marshal decided that he should also demonstrate that he was a Socialist man of the people. Tito thereupon upset New Delhi's snob-laden society by inviting red-turbaned railroad porters to a diplomatic reception. "You have seen all my uniforms," joshed
Last week a woman, 57-year-old Ludmila Jankovcova, became Deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia. Brisk, businesslike Ludmila, a competent economics teacher, began political life as a Socialist and a disciple of Czechoslovakia's honored Masaryk-Benes liberalism. She won two medals for her anti-Nazi underground activity in the war, but lost her husband (the Germans shot him). She became a changed woman. When the Communists destroyed Czech democracy in 1948, Ludmila stood by without a quiver, and even helped the Communists to swallow up her own party. Oldtime friends couldn't understand the switch, but Ludmila knew...