Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give the devil his due: the picture was snapped by a German press photographer and first appeared in the National Socialist newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, in the fall of 1938, shortly after the Sudeten "Anschluss." The Nazi explanation was that here were portrayed the intense emotions of joy which swept the Sudeten Germans as Hitler crossed the Czech border at Asch and drove through the streets of the nearby ancient city of Eger, 99% of whose inhabitants were ardently pro-Nazi Sudeten Germans at the time...
...cabbies and miners among the new Labor Members, many of them sitting on the floor of the overcrowded House, critically eyed their man. From the packed gallery peered the Bank of England's Governor Lord Catto. To lords and cabbies, Hugh Dalton was about to open the new Socialist Government's first budget...
...Communist boss is husky, eloquent Maurice Thorez, 45, onetime coal miner, who spent most of the war years in Moscow. Last week he turned his heaviest oratorical guns on the Gaullist-Socialist idea of a western bloc. Such a bloc, he cried, ''would be opposed by the other [eastern] bloc and lead toward new conflicts, toward a war of extermination with atomic bombs...
...Center is now occupied by the victorious Socialists and Popular Republicans (Mouvement Républicain Populaire). From them De Gaulle gets solid but not uncritical support. Last August the Socialists rejected fusion with the Communists by an overwhelming convention vote (10,112-to-274); thereby they won the support of shopkeepers, artisans, farmers and other petite bourgeoisie. The MRP, emerging from the Resistance, combines Christian and Socialist principles, appeals to the Church and to women (who voted for the first time in French history in the September cantonal elections and who now compose 53% of the electorate...
...porteño Perón upped wages an average 10%-20% (the cost of living rose more), rolled back rents and clothing costs 10%. Few of Buenos Aires' old-line, socialist-controlled workers went into the Perón camp. But on the poorest fringe, Perón found a following. It was this element that Perón's Labor Secretariat last week turned loose on Buenos Aires. Compared to the 500,000 democratic Argentines who had last month swelled the gigantic "March for Liberty," the Perónistas were small in numbers. But, aided...