Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward arrogation of more & more power by the State, which must in the end assert its power by force against the mass of men who prefer to remain free. When he emphasized this simple fact (TIME, July 18, 1945), Conservative Leader Winston Churchill was simply a better Leninist than Socialist Leader Clement Attlee...
Last week, Europe's three biggest Socialist parties were emphasizing it all over again...
...spirit of partisan exuberance tempered with terror, Poland approached its first nationwide popular election, ten days hence. By last week most of the combined opposition (Socialist and Polish Peasant Party) candidates had been jailed, and their supporters more or less completely cowed by the secret police, by striking their names from voting lists and by arrest. The Communist-dominated Government ventured to predict an "overwhelming" victory. According to the Potsdam Agreement, the Polish elections must be absolutely free and secret...
...security police in the election campaign suggest that Poland is almost as much an unfederated Soviet republic as Yugoslavia. The UB (security force) is modeled after (and trained by) Russia's MVD. The chief is Stanislaw Radkiewicz, former schoolteacher and longtime Communist. When his assistant, Stanislaw Vachowicz, a Socialist, complained of the UB's activities, he was forced to resign. When Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski, Socialist stooge of the Communists, protested about the UB in Cabinet meetings, he was told to mind his knitting...
Layman and Lay Reader. Britons knew Sir Richard as a Liberal M.P. who had founded, with J. B. Priestley, the shortlived, socialist Common Wealth Party, later resigned to join the Labor Party. Sir Richard, who describes himself as "a recent convert" to Anglicanism, now serves as lay reader* in his village church near Exeter. He believes that his Mirror column may enable him to cover the field of applied Christianity in "20 or 30 articles," happily anticipates some hot controversy over such questions as whether Jonah ever really lived in the whale. Says he: "I hope we shall be interrupted...