Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tories, with Churchill's war achievement to trade on, were reconciled to losses but confident of victory. Labor, committed to a drastic socialist program, was sure of gains, uncertain of victory. Liberals hoped at most to snatch a vital balance of power. To a world anxiously inquiring: "Stands Britain where she did?'1, British voters would soon give an answer. Presumably it would...
...King Leopold III, was in St. Wolfgang in the Austrian Alps. Reports that he might come home sent angry citizens swirling through the streets, shouting: "Down with Leopold!'' "Hang the King!" Defiant Walloons (French-speaking Belgians) threatened to bar his reentry into the country with their bodies. Socialist Premier Achille van Acker threatened to resign if King Leopold set foot on Belgian soil. There were rumors that Britain might intervene to restore Leopold to his throne...
...Left. In Premier Parri's Cabinet were three Actionists, three Socialists, three Communists, three Liberals, three Labor Democrats, four Christian Democrats, one Independent. The Premier was also Minister of the Interior (in charge of the police). Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, Socialist leader, was Minister for the Constituent Assembly; a vociferous antimonarchist, he would organize the election that would decide the monarchy's fate. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was Minister of Justice, a strategic perch for supervising the purge. But it was a restive coalition...
Like millions of his fellow Canadians. William Lyon Mackenzie King spent the first days of last week waiting to learn whether he would win or lose in his own constituency of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. When the soldier votes were finally counted,* the Prime Minister had been beaten by socialist CCFer E. L. Bowerman. What made the dose doubly hard for King to take: his defeat was by a piddling 129 votes (out of 19,341 votes cast); Bowerman was running for public office for the first time...
...Canada's soldiers, like her civilians, favored the Liberal Party. But the socialist CCF, third in civilian balloting, ran a potent second in the service vote...