Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come when most Frenchmen are prepared to throw France's democracy overboard and give a free hand to De Gaulle or anyone else. But neither has the time come when they are prepared to confront the implications of the fear confessed two weeks ago by Socialist Robert Lacoste, outgoing French proconsul in Algeria. Said Lacoste to a French newsman: "Why is all the world against France? You believe it is because we are not in the current of history? Yes, you believe it. I also...
...sought agreement last week on a practical first step toward easing the strains of cold war: it proposed an international inspection system in the Arctic to provide protection against surprise attack. But in the center of that same stage, under the same glare of floodlights, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics said nyet (see FOREIGN NEWS)-and proved beyond any last lingering doubt that it is more interested in the propaganda of peace than in the reality...
Marxist Buddhist. U Nu has also declared that "Marxism and Buddhism are incompatible," but to Burma's surprise the side he chose to join was that of Marxist Thakin Kyaw Dun and his strongly left-wing socialist followers. U Kyaw Nyein emerged as the rival leader, backed by U Ba Swe, Minister of Defense, and Thakin Tha Kin, ex-Home Minister who had been fired by U Nu. Both sides agreed to an equal division of the party's real estate and money, and prepared for a showdown in the August session of Parliament, with the losing side...
...since 1914 has Sweden had a political crisis sharp enough to force the King to dissolve Parliament. But last week the Socialist government of Premier Tage Erlander, whose party has held power alone or as masters of a coalition almost uninterruptedly since 1932, fell by an adverse vote in the Swedish lower chamber. At issue was expansion of Sweden's welfare state, which already provides more cradle-to-grave benefits than any other European nation. Following his defeat, Erlander asked King Gustaf VI Adolf to dissolve Parliament...
Though aware he would fall, gangling (6 ft. 3 in.) Premier Erlander rose from a sickbed to cast his ballot in favor of a Socialist proposal to provide uniform, state-administered pensions to all Swedes at the age of 67, giving them a fat two-thirds of the average income of their 15 best earning years. With the Socialists and Communists voting for Erlander's bill and the right-of-center parties against, the vote went 117 to 111 against Erlander...