Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What exercised the mob was the conviction that France may be softening its stand on Algeria. In the National Assembly Premier Mollet barely survived his 33rd vote of confidence by a margin of 33 votes. Led by Mendès-France, a bloc of 13 Radical Socialist Deputies boldly voted against the government, though the party has 13 members in Mollet's coalition Cabinet. Mollet, hurt by the attacks on his military policy and tough police methods, had been obliged to plead: "I am sure none of you think that the government, the army and the administration want...
...personally operated the country's efficient 40-man counterintelligence organization, could not help but feel for France in her North African dilemma. A modest, hard-working tracker of spies, 48-year-old René Dubois, born on the French side of Switzerland and a member of the Swiss Socialist Party, spoke with impatience of the Arab political leaders who visited, or lived, in neutral Switzerland: "They give me a lot of trouble...
...three times (1924, '26, '32) Premier of France, whose career stretched over half a century, paralleled the Third Republic; in Lyon. Elected mayor of Lyon at 33, a Senator at 40, witty, erudite, pipe-puffing Herriot became a Senate rival to the fiery Georges Clemenceau; with British Socialist and Visionary Ramsay MacDonald, introduced the "Geneva Protocol" into the League of Nations, a first international attempt to outlaw aggression; canceled (1932) the German reparations agreements and plunged France soon after into such deep financial troubles that despite his efforts France repudiated its U.S. debts. He irresolutely stuck to Marshal...
...with our hearts filled with confidence, for we have come to our most faithful, our truest friends." Kadar thanked the Russians effusively for their bloody intervention in Hungary last autumn, in which an estimated 25,000 Hungarians lost their lives. "The whole world now knows," Kadar said, "that every socialist state can count on the help of the Communist camp and above all of the Soviet Union." Then Kadar and hosts drove off for "ideological and economic talks," or, if things did not have to be phrased so diplomatically...
...history of the British press called Dangerous Estate, newsmen may find a timely re-evaluation of their basic role on both sides of the Atlantic. Written by Francis Williams, a veteran Fleet Streeter who was editor of the Laborite Daily Herald before the war and now edits the Socialist Forward magazine, the book was hailed by the London Observer's reviewer as the best study of the press he had read, praised by the London Times and recommended by the Manchester Guardian as "required reading...