Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belgian women had scarcely ceased weeping over the coffins of the victims of Rundstedt's Christmas drive. Belgian political factions had scarcely interrupted (but never really stopped) their quarrel in face of the threat that the drive implied. Last week in Brussels crisis loomed again. The five Socialist members of his Cabinet threatened to withdraw their support from Premier Hubert Pierlot. His Government seemed to be tottering...
...possible existence on earth of undetected saints and major prophets, about the most important person in the world last week was Joseph Vissarionovitch Djugashvili. He was better known to the world as Joseph Stalin, Marshal and chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...dogma to a party whose 4,600,000 members were bound to absolute obedience by an iron-clad discipline. It was also the face of the absolute ruler of some 180,000,000 people of 170 nationalities, living in one-sixth of the earth's surface, in a socialist empire spilling across Europe and Asia from Poland to the Pacific Ocean, and threatening to spill farther...
...November 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power. Said Lenin, at the second All-Russian Congress of the Soviets: "We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist order." The most stubborn fact in modern history had turned up: in a country continental in size, one class (the proletariat) had repudiated democracy and, guided by a monolithic party, rushed in the name of Communism toward the totalitarian state...
Light was shed last week on an important aspect of the Greek situation which has been overlooked except by the British Government: how much was ELAS influenced by the Communist Party, the central group in EAM? ELD (Union of Popular Democracy) and SKE (Socialist Party of Greece), two of the biggest parties, both of which recently broke with EAM, had issued statements. The Central Committee of the SKE declared that: "It refused all responsibility for, and withdrew itself from, the EAM bloc as soon as it was informed of the armed breach which took place without consultation...