Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cogitate with his three assistant judges for seven hours, returned to deliver the verdict: all 16 prisoners were to be shot "within 72 hours," subject to the remote possibility of an overriding decree of clemency by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. From Brussels, the Second (Socialist) International dispatched to the Third (Communist) International at Moscow a vigorous message protesting that the prisoners had not in fact been defended in court. This was de' nounced by the official Moscow party organ Pravda as "impertinent." With all clemency refused and before a second...
...another way, the Whites declared that of Spain's 50 provinces they held last week 27 against 22 held by the Government. Because the world's fourth largest gold hoard, $400,000,000, is salted down in the vaults of Madrid's Bank of Spain, eminent Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto boasted: "The Government will win because we have money, money and still more money!" With all Madrid newsorgans now in Government hands, substantial citizens of the capital read some strange bits under the familiar banner heads of what once were their favorite papers. "The only good bondholder...
...fighting under such banners as LONG LIVE DYNAMITE! A speech by Socialist Prieto in which he urged the Government militia to moderate their excesses brought a violent counter blast from Communist Deputy Dolores ("The Passion Flower") Ibarruri:- "Im- prison the wives and children of all who are fighting the Government! . . . The life of each militiaman fighting at the front must be guaranteed by holding the mother or child of a traitor as hostage!" In Madrid hospitals, where most of the trained nurses have always been Sisters of Mercy, these nuns were ejected last week by untrained radical nurses despite...
...train and saw her safely out of Madrid. Last week proud Count Romanones was let out of a San Sebastian jail, reputedly after making "charitcble contributions" of 2,000,000 pesetas ($260,000). Arriving in France, he was obsequiously met by an undersecretary of the Cabinet of Socialist Premier Leon Blum. Snorted the old Monarchist: "I was not afraid because I knew I was protected by those I always had commanded and who always obeyed...
...been London's basic policy that Britain must oppose whichever power on the Continent is strongest, lest it overwhelm her in the end. Today an important Cabinet faction close to Squire Baldwin holds that "the strongest European power" is now not any one country but the international Socialist-Communist forces of the "Popular Front" which have taken both France and Spain by ballot and are trying in a dozen countries for more sweeping victories. Britons knew what to think last week when, although there has been no battle in Madrid, 733 political opponents of the Government were revealed...