Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since he became leader of the Labor Party 19 months ago moderate Hugh Gaitskell has been trying to reassure the British public that his party is no longer wildly socialistic-and hoping that the party's left wing would not overhear him and prove him wrong. The leftist followers of Aneurin Bevan suspect Gaitskell of trying to make Labor "not a Socialist Party at all but a mere ginger group for making capitalism work more efficiently and humanely." Last week, after much labor, the party brought forth a manifesto on the subject, which the Economist promptly dubbed "Mouse...
...Agreement Is Unnecessary." A fortnight ago, the full Socialist International Congress met in Vienna. No longer so tactful, Nye Bevan bluntly compared "the sufferings in Algeria" to "the persecutions ... in Hungary," and the Scandinavians made their disapproval painfully clear by abstaining when Guy Mollet (who was not present) was elected a vice president of the International. Back in Paris last week, sturdy Pierre Commin, who headed the French delegation, professed himself undismayed by the Socialist schizophrenia revealed at Vienna...
...would like to have a single international Party," said he. "But for our domestic problems, international Socialist agreement is not necessary...
...report, written by young (30) Andre Vial, co-editor of the leftist Catholic weekly Temoignage Chretien (Christian Witness), was directed at the government of Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, but it did not blame Mollet so much as his successor, Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, who was Mollet's Minister of National Defense. Charged I.P.I.: Bourges-Maunoury moved against the press "because of a single political motive: the Algerian affair...
...water for criticizing Algerian policy, Editor Vial documented such reprisals as the imprisonment of Resistance Heroine Claude Gerard on charges of "endangering external security" with a series of stories from Algeria that appeared in Demain (TIME, June 11, 1956), the weekly organ of Mollet's own Socialist Party...