Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard-bitten French air force intelligence officers in North Africa it was the perfect chance to score a coup that might shorten Algeria's long and bloody war. Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco, with the unofficial blessing of Socialist Guy Mollet's government, had invited top Algerian rebel chieftains from their Cairo headquarters to Rabat to talk peace terms with him. Then they would fly to Tunis for discussions with moderate Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba. A daring plan occurred to the officers: Why not kidnap the Algerian rebels' high command in midair...
...Army at war's end, he spent a couple of months in a P.W. camp before being appointed a top county official in Schongau by the American Military Government. He took naturally to politics. He advocated uniting Catholics and Protestants into a political party, ultimately founded the Christian Socialist Union in Schongau and was one of the founders of the greater Bavarian C.S.U. Elected to the West German Bundestag in 1949, he charged onto the national scene like a Tiger tank on the rampage...
Paradoxically, the 11-year-old trend to Socialism took place under the rule of the free-enterprising Volkspartei; it was the price that Austria's leading party (which lacked.an absolute majority) had to pay for Socialist support. But last spring Austria's voters took a look at the immense reconstruction job done by private enterprise despite government hobbles and, for the first time, gave the Volkspartei a whopping vote, just one seat short of a parliamentary majority. It was a clear mandate to roll back government control...
Thus The Apple Cart caused a mild furore in 1929 because Socialist Shaw put in a good word, not to say several magnificent speeches, for monarchy. Shaw's English King Magnus is far more public-spirited, high-minded and civilized than the Labor Prime Minister and, as it turns out, a shrewder tactician. Heckled for such a political about-face, Shaw insisted-in one of those prefaces of his which are more like second times at bat-that King and Prime Minister not only are not winner and loser, but are not even basic antagonists. "The conflict," Shaw asserts...
...Shaw is resounding an old standard theme, he works variations-and even a fantasia-upon it. He can jiggle his royal puppet in the classic role of the Patriot King; he can even make a kind of If-I-Were-King of Magnus. The Socialist Bernard can act a Strong Man on the throne, a Passionless Shepherd in the boudoir. The disbeliever in monarchy can suggest that a constitutional monarch be flagrantly unconstitutional, and can have him retain his throne by threatening to abdicate and prove ten times as troublesome in Parliament...