Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time a sincere Catholic and a true socialist...
Last week, in a kind of "State of the Union" speech to Red China's dummy Parliament, Premier Chou En-lai insisted that the Communists have achieved "basic victory in our socialist revolution"-partly by executing "16.8% of the counterrevolutionaries dealt with." Nonetheless, Chou went on, there were "remnants of counter-revolutionaries still trying to engage in wrecking activities." There were even people, he conceded, "who keep complaining because China's living standards are so low, and keep praising the American way of life...
...Communist Party workers moved into Morawice, urged that they merge their holdings into Soviet-type collective farms. When the .peasants hesitated, the Communists turned the economic screws, demanded larger deliverfes of corn, milk and potatoes. More in the spirit of Poland's traditional agricultural "circles" than from socialist leanings, one group of 13 families pooled their 100 acres of land and formed a collective called Victoria...
...Flowering. In all these parties, there was a planned detachment from church direction, a deliberate effort to accept collaboration with progressive, socialist and even specifically anticlerical parties. During the first ten postwar years, Christian Democracy had a great flowering. Today, only in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's West Germany, where they are the party of the center, are the Christian Democrats still riding high...
...less than 50% Roman Catholic, has shrewdly salted its basically Catholic leadership with Protestants. In France the Catholic M.R.P. Party, with its "good Europeans" Georges Bidault and Robert Schuman, is a declining force because the supersensitive issue of state aid to Catholic schools has split it from its Socialist allies...