Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with good intention becomes tainted because there is such a difference in psychology"), and developed so strong a left-wing slant that when he joined the Free French in 1940, a right-wing Gaullist received him with the sour greeting: "Bonjour, Commissar." Like most other French leftists, Soustelle supported Socialist Leon Blum's prewar Popular Front with the Communists. In Mexico one of his great friends was Communist Painter Diego Rivera, who was at that time, Soustelle recalls, "in an anti-Stalinist phase and carried a large pistol...
...August 1955, when a band of Algerian rebels murdered and mutilated scores of French civilians in the mining town of El Alia, Soustelle turned implacably hostile toward negotiations with the rebel F.L.N., called for all-out military suppression. So congenial did the settlers find his new attitude that when Socialist Premier Guy Mollet yanked Soustelle from his job as Governor General, he was carried shoulder-high through Algiers by French colons in one of the wildest demonstrations in the city's history. Soustelle promised the crowd: "This is not farewell. I will return when Algeria needs...
...repellent name of "working teas." Inevitably Gromyko sidled up to Herter and privately suggested giving ground a little here or there, to keep the talk going. The West Germans, alarmed at the possibility of last-minute "ill-considered concessions," sent a hurry-up call for West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt to appear at Geneva. They need not have worried. The last days were spent in,exchange of poles-apart position papers, in discussing how to counter specious last-minute Soviet offers in deciding whether to recess or to break oo:. After nine tedious weeks, Geneva was ending...
Foreign Minister Hashim Jawad, 50, a balding, urbane diplomat fluent in Arabic, French and English, is a graduate of the American University of Beirut, later studied under Leftist Harold Laski at the University of London in the '30s, is married to a Swiss wife. Socialist-leaning himself, Jawad is staunchly antiCommunist, and was fiercely attacked by the Communist press when he was appointed Foreign Minister...
Finance Minister Mohammed Hadid also studied under and was deeply influenced by that heady English socialist, Laski. Hadid insists that he is "not a dogmatic socialist now," but says: "We aim to pursue the progressive policy of the welfare state ... to level out incomes by means of taxation and social services...