Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hydropress plant in Taganrog the Molotov Plant. Alexander Lozovsky, then a trade-union bigwig, paid him a lush compliment: "Comrade Molotov combines Russian revolutionary ability with American efficiency." For helping to boost tank production, the Soviet Government a fortnight ago gave him its highest civilian honor: Hero of Socialist Labor...
Franco had been an expert in Moroccan warfare. He knew all the admirable qualities of the Moorish trooper, who requires only to be paid, fed and told to kill. In 1934 he gave Spain an innovation in the class struggle by importing Moors to put down an uprising by Socialist Asturian miners. Later he brought the Moors in again to fight the milicianos of the Republic. To this day Moors, picturesque in their white, blue and red burnooses, make up his personal bodyguard...
Died. Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, 66, "the Clarence Darrow of Germany"; after long illness; in Queens, L.I. A Socialist, onetime Prussian Minister of Justice, longtime Reichstag member, he gained fame for his legal defense of hot-to-handle personalities (Revolutionists Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thalmann, Kurt Eisner). He was said to be the only lawyer who ever got Hitler on the witness stand, and on that occasion (a 1932 libel trial) so enraged Adolf that he shouted himself into a fine for unruly behavior. Dr. Rosenfeld escaped from Germany the next year...
...Hope of finding traitors here rests on complete ignorance of the character of the National Socialist State; a belief that they can bring about a July 25 in Germany rests on a fundamental illusion as to my personal position as well as about the attitude of my political collaborators and my field marshals, admirals and generals. More than ever before, the German leadership opposes these intentions as a fanatical unit. Any emergency will only fortify us in our determination...
...where Tutt learned that law is not justice, is a luxury the poor cannot afford); and in the U.S. at large. There is Tammany Boss Croker, who, says Tutt, was no worse than Republican Boss Tom Platt. There is Mark Sullivan, who (in Bull Moose days) was a "semi-Socialist." When the Lusitania was sunk, only Tutt and Frederic R. Coudert Jr.* (at a meeting of 18 prominent attorneys) thought the U.S. should get into World War I. When Tutt asked Calvin Coolidge (whom he had known as a boy in Vermont) what it felt like to be President...