Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested men may witness in Austria variations upon a theme by Hitler. It has come to be accepted as a law of social development that a waning capitalism will attack and destroy evolutionary social democracy. The corpse of the Austrian Socialist Party is being divided between the Dollfuss fascists and the pro-German Nazis. Its press has been silenced, its power is being alienated, and now reports have it that large numbers of its members are going over to the Nazis. It makes no difference whether Dollfuss or the Nazis win; both represent the inevitable triumph of capitalism by violence...
...this material success so softened the socialist movement that by the time Dollfuss, using the Nazis as a bogey, declared a fascist dictatorship, the Socialists had not one revolutionary kick left in them. They did not even attempt a general strike; they merely acquiesced. This was partially due to Dollfuss' cleverness in declaring the dictatorship to stop the Nazis, pet hate of all Marxists. Moving one small step at a time he has not offered the Socialists a sufficient pretext to declare a general strike, yet he has succeeded in gradually hamstringing them by taking away their surplus...
Aghast at what was happening, henchmen of ex-Premier Azana and other leaders who made Spain a Republic, began to do their bit by bursting into polling places and smashing voting urns amid a welter of trampled ballots. Even the anti-Socialist but definitely Republican party of Premier Don Diego Martinez Barrios grew nervous as it began to seem that the women's vote might give victory to extreme Right parties loyal to "His Most Catholic Majesty." As tension grew the Mayor of Badajos was stabbed to death by poll pug-uglies, but not until he had fired...
...sent King Alfonso XIII flying for his life could do no less than give Spanish women the right to vote. Last week they wished they had given them almost anything else. Too late Don Manuel Azana, a fiery feminist during his 20 dictatorial months as Premier of a Socialist Coalition government, remembered the words of the smart British-blooded spinster he made Minister of Prisons, Senorita Victoria Kent: "Spanish women are not prepared for the ballot...
...socialist, communist, or conservative; but for God's sake go out and experiment with your theories and test your convictions. By arguing what is right or wrong you never get anywhere. Theoretical ethics is the bank. There is no right or wrong in international law. I can prove that Japan had a perfect right to do into Manchuria, in spite of the fact that it was entirely wrong from China's point of view...