Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens in the whole democratic world." Author H. S. Ferns, a recent biographer of late Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King, saw a more fundamental change on the political horizon. Wrote he: "Mr. Diefenbaker has honestly proclaimed himself a leader of the moderate right. Mr. Coldwell [leader of the small Socialist Party] has honestly proclaimed himself a leader of the moderate left. There is no longer any place for the Liberals...
Says one art teacher: "I didn't care anything for Socialist realism. I brought reproductions of real modern art into my classes, and I said 'this is art and I like it.' " One historian would take trusted students on hikes, and once safe from being overheard, would deliver lectures as he had in pre-Communist days. Though there were student spies ("I could always tell," says one facultyman. "They took notes at the wrong times"), teachers and students found subtle ways of communicating. Says a historian: "If I had to refer to the 'Soviet liberation...
...Sahara mineral resources will be a direct and decisive factor in our attempts to raise living standards in the French Union." So said French Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury as he appointed the first Minister of the Sahara, Socialist Max Lejeune. The appointment gave a new fillip to excited talk in bars and bourses, where businessmen bubbled with highflying schemes for converting France's colonial wasteland into a new Ruhr and inexhaustible source of raw materials...
...struggle for independence in the 1930s, "capitalism" was an ugly word, almost as bad as "colonialism," with which it was inextricably associated. In 1950, after the erstwhile rebels had become the rulers of an independent Burma, Premier U Nu bluntly defined their goal: "the constitution of a socialist state...
...reputation as a defender of the underdog. Changed his Liberal sympathies in 1925, ran first of four unsuccessful races as a Tory, losing in one to famed Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Elected in 1940, has since 1945 been the only Tory M.P. from the Liberal and socialist stronghold of Saskatchewan. Won leadership of the Conservatives in December 1956, succeeded ailing, standoffish George Drew...