Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extreme views of what Russia really wants. The leading spokesmen of these opposed views were Henry Wallace and William C. Bullitt (ex-Ambassador to Moscow). The Wallace view, in brief, was that, once Russia feels secure against attack, she will stop expanding and start providing the long-promised socialist Utopia for her own people. The Bullitt view was that the Bolshevik leaders are irrevocably committed by the "Communist creed" to world domination, and that nothing will stop them but force, the sooner applied, the better...
...issue in Berlin's quadripartite municipal elections had been clearly drawn between the Russian-backed SED (Socialist Unity Party) and three other parties (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and Liberals) which had U.S.British sympathy. The SED was crushingly beaten...
...Government would not listen. The crowd's patience changed, to sullenness, to anger; shouts became a frenzied roar. Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni tried to mollify them. Later, a shirtless young man in blue overalls said...
...Dear Child." With such sarcastic editorials, Berlin's non-Communist newspapers last week ridiculed the cure-all campaign promises made by SED (the Communist-run Socialist Unity Party) in a desperate attempt to win votes for Berlin's municipal elections Oct. 20. Sedists (as Berliners have begun to call SEDers) personally took credit for such timely Russian favors as last week's distribution of cigarets and liquor to Berliners, and the special allotment of clothing and shoes to 60,000 children. SED distributed notebooks to children with the inscription: "Instead of using this paper for a campaign...
George Bernard Shaw, who, at 41, climbed off his soapbox to become socialist member of London's St. Pancras borough council, was prevented (by a fall) from receiving the council's belated recognition: freedom of the borough. He had tumbled from his swivel chair and bruised a leg. But he delivered an acceptance speech anyway (by radio transcription). Said Shaw: "When one is very old, as I am . . . your legs give in before your head does. Consequently you're always tumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week . . . and . . . it was perfectly plain that...