Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said one Socialist Deputy: "If the Communist Party decides to take over France, they can do it by telephone." The Communists were not prepared to do so at once. They preferred to wait and undermine the last vestiges of sovereign government in France. France, said Koestler, "has become a Troy, with the wooden horse standing on a pedestal in the market place; the children pat it on the nose, and the grownups, who know better, do the same, with an embarrassed laugh, pretending not to hear the ominous noises in its belly...
...little highlights of history, illustrate Koestler's meaning. One shows Communist boss Jacques Duclos (see cut) bouncing out of his first conference with new Premier Leon Blum. Duclos is unmistakably the master, a rotund figure of smug and pregnant power. The other picture shows France's new Socialist Cabinet. On the eve of taking office, they are just as unmistakably the defeated-pathetic shadows, human ciphers called to the semblance of power, but denied even the illusion of political effectiveness. For, says Koestler, "the French Socialists have lost both their courage and their following...
...latest case is the "Olkhovatka Hermes." Olkhovatka is a remote rural region of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Its Hermes is one Comrade Vakhlin, the "unrelenting" prosecutor of a local committee engaged in snooping into irregularities on collective farms. He was nicknamed for the mythological Hermes, who, according to the Soviet press, once stole a sheep, saying to the owner as he made off: "Don't do as I do, do as I tell...
...Chih-minh (He Who Enlightens), president of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party, who, with his little goat beard, looks something like a Mongoloid Trotsky (see cut). Even for a "coco" (as French politicians call the Stalinists), Ho has had a colorful history. Onetime photographer, cabin boy and socialist, he took the cure in Moscow, subsequently turned up (1924) at the Soviet Consulate in Boston, and later (1927) as an aide to Michael Borodin, who, during the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, was Russia's Grey Eminence advising the Kuomintang. Ho has a War Minister named Vo Nguyen-giap, who hates...
From Czechoslovakia: Jan Garrigue Masaryk, Foreign Minister for the new Communist-Socialist Czech Government and chief of its United Nations delegation, stands between two ideological worlds. Son of the father of Czech independence after World War I, Jan Masaryk became the fervent pleader of his country's lost cause after Munich. No Communist, Masaryk is now busy at his job of explaining to the Western world Czechoslovakia's new role as an ally of Russia. Says Masaryk: "There is no iron curtain in Czechoslovakia. . . . The door to the West is wide open. . . . We go along with Russia...