Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polls will bring surprise not unmingled with consternation to the Party leaders. And this apparent paradox is easily explained: for years it has been the face-saving excuse of Labour officials that though they had power, they had no majority, and therefore no chance of effecting the socialist legislation to which they were pledged. To the average coal-miner this seemed reasonable enough. But what will happen if the Party obtains a straight majority at the next General Election...
...conscious attack on anything that might be conceived as liberalism or rationalist intellectualism. It sternly suppresses all work which is not expressive of German national culture. Liberalistic thought scornfully termed "Intellectualism" modernistic or international art, all expression of an individuality which is not creative in the National Socialist sense are emphatically discouraged...
...bearded, gold-spectacled Michail Ivanovich Kalinin (K in the cut above) who has as little power as the President of France and is in effect "President of Russia," though his proper Soviet title is President of the Standing Committee of the Union Central Executive Committee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...spoke the Premier, a man of the moderate Left (his party is misnamed Radical Socialist), warmed up the Chamber until finally even his enemies on the extreme Left and Right were cheering him. He won a smash vote of confidence 470 to 120 - in effect on the issue of Adolf Hitler. After that the Chamber buckled down to debate the budget with "extreme urgency" and the life of the Daladier Cabinet was in danger every minute...
Getting out of committee the Blum-Daladier squabble was soon raging in the Chamber lobbies and finally Socialist Blum declared himself opposed to the Premier's entire theory of balancing the budget on a sound money basis by drastic economies and increased taxation...