Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitutional crisis had dragged on for more than a month. Socialist Premier Achille van Acker was adamant: the King must abdicate. In St. Wolfgang the King was undecided; every night he said yes, every morning he said...
...year a Free Japan Committee, organized along the lines of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, has been active in Yenan. The official name of the committee is the Japanese People's Liberation Alliance. Wrote brilliant Biographer Boris J. Nicolaevsky (Aseff the Spy) in Manhattan's socialist New Leader...
Died. John ("Honest Jack") Curtin, 60, Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia, policeman's son, onetime printer's devil, revolutionary socialist, trade unionist, journalist and political orator, who marshaled Australia's strength to stand off the Jap, and converted it (in co-operation with his good friend General Douglas MacArthur) into the Pacific war's first Allied bastion; of a heart ailment, in Canberra, Australia. Quiet but forceful, austere but approachable, Curtin was described by Winston Churchill as a " commanding, competent and wholehearted leader...
...clerk who kept .addressing him with the customary title of Eccellenza-Your Excellency. When asked how he should be addressed, the Premier answered: "As I happen to be a professor, why not just address me as Professor Parri?" Two days later the Council of Ministers, led by Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, voted unanimously to abolish the title of Eccellenza...
...Said the Socialist Avanti: "Thus disappears from our customs an archaic hangover from the days of the Spaniards. To give the title of Excellency no longer is a prerogative of the state but of shoeshine boys who may use or abuse it at their will and the will of their clients." Said the moderate Risorgimento Liber ale: "Don't be angry, Eccellenza Nenni, but do you think it is wise to attack Neapolitan shoeshine boys, who also will have their share in elections, with a tendency towards socialism? . . . And do you know-Freud found that our indignation...