Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lastik also met "society women whose husbands earned quite decent salaries, but who increased their income through prostitution." His conclusion: the prevalence of prostitution is not, as Engels maintained, due solely to social misery, but quite as much to socialist "blindness and falsehood...
Last week Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, attacked from all sides for failure of peace and absence of victory in Algeria, yielded to the uneasy conscience of metropolitan France by appointing a grandiosely designated Committee to Safeguard Individual Rights and Liberties. A week earlier another committee, appointed by the Radical Socialist Party for a similar purpose, had thought better of going to Algeria when Minister Resident Robert Lacoste warned that he would be forced to employ thousands of police to protect them from the French colons...
Though big, bluff Robert Lacoste rates as French proconsul in Algeria, his background as Socialist, trade unionist and World War II Resistance fighter gives him a viewpoint somewhat different from that of the colons he zealously protects. Last week he gave a group of intimates a new reason for continuing the war that cannot be won: If France surrenders, he said, it will mean the return to continental France of more than a million angry displaced Europeans, plus an army largely sympathetic to them. The outcome, hinted Lacoste, would be a rightist revolution a la Franco...
...Algiers' Palais d'Eté, rich with the strong colors and heavy scents of the North African spring. Enthused the correspondent: "Isn't this a wonderful place?" Madame Lacoste looked at him oddly, spat out: "I hate it, I hate it. My husband is a Socialist who spent all his life trying to help people. Now he is here killing people." Madame Lacoste burst into tears. For the French it was a tormented spring...
...countries can also set up central offices to encourage and facilitate private investment, as The Netherlands has done so successfully, organize development banks and investment corporations to encourage local capital to enter partnerships with U.S. investors. Even state socialism or nationalism need not be a deterrent to private investment. Socialist-minded India, for example, guarantees foreign investors against socialization for a stipulated period, e.g., 25 years for oil companies, arranges in advance for compensation if nationalization comes...