Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unrest. May Day in Vienna saw 200,000 Socialists and a mere 20,000 Communists in rival parades. But the lack of animosity between them was notable. Said a Socialist: "Give us a kilo of fat and you'd see the marching...
...First Tunic." In the midst of national confusion, President Félix Gouin kept a Socialist calm, said, "The main virtue of the Constitution is that it exists." Other leaders deplored the possibility that Frenchmen might plump for the Red-inspired charter simply by default. Philippe Barrès, editor of Paris-Presse, put it this way: "What would worry me . . . would be the spectacle of a people so disillusioned as to adopt a new Constitution in the same way as a conscripted soldier arriving gloomily at the barracks accepts the first tunic which a sergeant tosses...
...conservative outlined the future: "If the vote is 'Yes,' the June 2 elections will bring a Communist-Socialist regime, with the Communists controlling the Ministries of War and Interior [police]. For perhaps a year the Communists will govern reasonably. When they feel they have the situation in hand, they'll start putting on the heat-limiting more and more individual rights, etc. Eventually the Socialists will crack. Half will go with the Communists, half will move to the Right. The Communists then will no longer have a majority in the Assembly. And this is where, dropping...
...propaganda machine that includes the newspaper Hoy (Today), schools, sound trucks, cut-rate bookshops, a big radio station, and a troop of "Socialist Boy Scouts" attacks U.S. foreign policy daily. Hoy's Moscow-syllabled appraisal of last week's march past: a demonstration of "workers' opposition to Anglo-American reactionary maneuvers and imperialistic penetration...
Macrides, who is working on his Ph. D. thesis here, pointed out that the 800,000 abstainers in the election were not only of the leftist EAM, but also included members of the democratic Agrarian. Progressive, and Socialist parties...