Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sees it, the guiding principle of Tory democracy must be that laid down by his favorite predecessor, Benjamin Disraeli: "To elevate the condition of the people." It is by elevating the condition of the people that Macmillan has led the British electorate steadily away from the sterile socialist doctrines that once threatened to emasculate the free economy that is Britain's best hope for the future. In an electorate whose workers have become middleclass, said Macmillan in a TV victory speech last week, "the class war is obsolete." Then, with that faintly superior smile, he added: "Nowadays...
With prosperity rising and class lines blurring, the old socialist slogans are becoming bogeys, rather than attractions. Nationalization is now an electoral liability even among Laborite voters. Thus last Thursday, Ian Mikardo, vice-Chairman of the Labor Party and leader of the party left, lost his industrial seat to a Conservative. Where the promise of equality attracted votes before, the offer of opportunity is winning them...
...Republicans of 1948, campaigning decorously on the confident assumption that all they needed to do was to avoid rocking the boat. But unlike Tom Dewey's cohorts, the Tories awoke in time to change their campaign style. "Attack," ordered Tory Chairman Lord Hailsham last week. "Expose the grisly Socialist record. Ridicule their crude pretensions...
...Conservatives, who won a five-year term are generally closer to the foreign policy of the United States than are the Laborites. Labor is Britain's Socialist party...
...Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, President Eisenhower turned to Nikita Khrushchev with a personal appeal. Said he: "You have the opportunity to make a great contribution to history by making it possible to ease tensions. It is within your hands." Nikita Khrushchev, unchallenged ruler of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its satellites, was in an unusual position. His was the line that the U.S. was blocking world peace. Yet, in the strangely relaxed and friendly atmosphere of the guarded mountain retreat, Dwight Eisenhower, determinedly serious, was pinning him down to the specific issue of Berlin as the major...