Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest voters had seemingly decided to turn right, despite the presence of the Red Army. In the Budapest municipal elections the non-socialist Small Holders' Party, which advocated breaking up Hungary's large estates into small privately owned holdings, won control of the City Council with 122 seats against 104 for the Communist-Social Democrat coalition. Much of its support came from people eager to vote for the only well-organized non-Communist party. The Small Holders' leader, Zoltan Tildy, jubilantly predicted that in the national election next month all Hungary would follow the capital...
...Continental trends were obscure. The dominant surge was still toward what used to be "the left." But Europe, with all the world, needed a new political vocabulary. Yesterday's "right" was all but dead; the socialist "left" looked very much like 1945's center...
Ebullient Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, 59, son of the great Thomas Masaryk, is a nonpartisan in domestic politics but a western democrat in outlook. Unassuming Dr. Petr Zenkl, 61, Lord Mayor of Prague, old crony of Dr. Benes, is one of the ablest and most popular of Socialist leaders. Shrewd Antonin Zapotocki, Communist boss of the powerful, well-disciplined central trade unions council (U.R.O.), is in the thick of the nationalization program. Workers committees chosen by the U.R.O. will help the Government to manage confiscated factories, allocate manpower, speed up production...
...many still unsettled questions in still unsettled Italy was whether to remain a monarchy or turn republic. Fiery Gregorio Agnini, 89, who got off a rousing republican speech on the assembly's first day, died during the week. But many another voice in and out of his Socialist Party would still continue to demand that the country have done with the House of Savoy...
...rally in the Konzerthaus, earnest, 75-year-old Dr. Karl Renner, provisional Chancellor, gave 10,000 Viennese some stirring news: Socialist, Communist and Volkspartei leaders had united to demand return of the South Tyrol, which Italy had taken after World War I. The Big Five Foreign Ministers had tabled the appeal at London, but at least they had not killed...