Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only one point were the delegates nearly unanimous. Careful reporters noted that 41 of them tripped over the coconut mat as they entered Clacton's garish, modernistic Oulton Hall. The 42nd, stepping carefully, was Britain's Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, who presided over the first of the secret sessions...
...delegates thought up difficulties anyway. Those from eastern Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania) were against the Socialist International because they feared to break with the Communists. Their spokesman was grey-haired, bright-eyed Anna Kethly, now Deputy Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament. Said Anna Kethly: "It would be disastrous for Hungary to end the present cordial relations with Russia, owing to the geographical proximity...
...French, Italian, Austrian and Belgian Socialists had a different position. They foresaw an eventual break with the Communists, but thought the present moment was "premature." Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland strung along with the British Labor Party, as they usually do. The Argentine delegate, Nicolás Repetto, hoped a Socialist International might help him fight Perón. A Canadian delegate favored an anti-Communist Socialist International, but he had a worry of his own: "Any future war will be between America and Russia-and we Canadians are between. We will get the atom bombs that miss...
...final session was six hours of quick-fire debate. The delegates decided that they would "not attempt a Socialist International before achieving collaboration with the Soviet Union." Laski tried to hide his disappointment with a magnanimous gesture: "I will rather resign the chairmanship of the British Labor Party than subscribe to an attempt to force a Socialist International in the face of the feeling here against...
Leipzig's great railway station was smashed and burned in the bombings, but its charred walls were hung last week with red bunting, evergreen boughs and Socialist slogans. Tens of thousands of Germans, transported on 95 special trains, poured through it to Leipzig's first fair since 1941. Other Germans came, as visitors to the Leipzig Fair had come 700 years ago, by horse & wagon and a foot...