Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schaus's party won, and last week, when the new government was formed, the furor over the accidents produced a major casualty. Portly, white-haired Joseph Bech, 72-a Christian Socialist who has been Foreign Minister for the past 33 years and a familiar florid figure at nearly every international conference since League of Nations days, in the company of the famed from Lloyd George to Macmillan-lost his job. The new Foreign Minister: Eugene Schaus...
...trade unionist and the Socialist lady sheriff of Southampton, Stonehouse sat at the feet of Harold Laski at the London School of Economics, is a great man for causes. No sooner had he landed in Salisbury on a five-week tour of Africa than the whites were up in arms...
Accepting Liabilities. In Brussels. Socialist and Communi&t Deputies made a tumultuous attack on the coalition Catholic-Liberal government. Cried one: "You not only condemn to death the 18,000 Borinage miners but the entire region-its shopkeepers, all other industries, everyone who is dependent on them." Catholic Deputy Fred-Bertrand, a former miner, shouted in reply: "Do you think you'll attract foreign companies and new investment by creating this revolution?" A government minister promised "replacement jobs" for the miners but was hooted down when unable to give any details. Premier Gaston Eyskens refused to consider nationalizing...
...Roman Catholic priest who is forbidden to say Mass but still wears a soutane-has long favored keeping a firm tie with France, once blurted in a fit of candor that is rare in Africa these days: "We will need French aid until the year X." His longtime rival, Socialist Jacques Opangault, dreams of the day when the former territories of French Equatorial Africa will be united in a federation on its own. When the time came to vote on the territory's status under the new De Gaulle constitution, Opangault's Deputies-seeing themselves losing...
Since the capital city of Pointe Noire is in the hands of a tribe allied to Socialist Opangault's loyal followers, the M'Boshi, the abbe hastily got the seat of government moved to Brazzaville. There he somehow managed to increase his majority in the Parliament from one seat to seven. Opangault again and again charged bribery, and announced that he and his party would boycott Parliament unless the Premier forthwith set a date for new elections. Last week the ultimatum expired, and the fighting began...