Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clean sweep for the now banned Catholic parties, so deep runs the revulsion from Communism. The January elections will not be free, but the Communists, under intense pressure, will offer approved alternate candidates on a one-party slate for the first time. The Polytechnic students (members of Catholic, Socialist and Communist youth organizations) seemed ready to accept this, provided they could nominate some of the "approved alternates." Similar groups among factory workers and peasants-most prominent in the fight for liberalizing the tyranny-are taking the same line. Though their chosen candidates might have to be Communists, they wanted...
Molotov has also been made official arbiter of Soviet culture, and at a recent meeting of Soviet writers, artists and critics he reaffirmed the old Stalinist doctrine of "Socialist realism." No art is "good" or "worthwhile" unless it serves a positive ideological purpose, said he. In other words, Molotov was ordering an ideological re-audit, which the sorry Soviet system badly needs. But it is hard to see how playwrights, authors and critics can do much but keep quiet, or lapse into the dull old dogmatic ruts, until the Soviet leadership itself gathers its wits and decides where...
...strength of this wave of criticism, the Socialist Opposition in Parliament demanded a debate on India's foreign policy. Opening the two-day debate, Nehru, his face grim, read off an hour-long speech which he had carefully written and rewritten the day before. By the time he was half through, his opponents knew that their attack had been parried in advance. Abandoning his previous assertions that the Hungarian affair was "unclear," and essentially a civil war, Nehru flatly admitted: "The fact is that ... the Soviet armies were there against the wishes of the Hungarian people...
Nehru's new line seemed to satisfy most Indians. Nehru, said one Socialist, had taken three steps forward and two back, but the important thing was that one step had been gained. Outside India, it was hard to see how so small and belated a step forward warranted much enthusiasm...
Pundits Joseph and Stewart Alsop, who have criticized the Administration's Middle East policy and defended the Franco-British attack on Egypt, last week goaded Old Socialist Norman Thomas into unwonted words of praise for the Eisenhower Administration. In a letter to 21 of the papers that carry the Alsops' column, Thomas marveled at the Alsops' "extraordinary adventure in support of the blundering Eden and the sorry socialist, Mollet." Said Thomas: "Suppose (as the Alsops would have it) that the U.N., with the President's approval, had put off a cease-fire in the Middle East...