Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...errors and ineptitudes had been fatal, the Conservative Party would have died in 1939 and 1940. But the Tories survived and thrived. Early in 1942, when Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps emerged as the white hope of a new deal, the Tories took him into the Government and then swallowed him up. Now Sir Stafford was useful to them. Last week, as Minister of Aircraft Production, he took the slings and arrows for the Government's seizure of inefficient Short Brothers, Ltd. (Sunderland flying boats, Stirling bombers...
Heads Down. The Labor Party is in humdrum contrast. It has only a few able men, a lukewarm, badly battered Socialist program. Labor's representation in the House consists mostly of ultraconservative unionists, of the type which long ago inspired the crack, "Commons is Labor's House of Lords...
...Press Is Whose Instrument? In the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, where the printed word is in many places something new, where for 20 years there has been such an effort at instructing the unlettered masses as the world had never seen before, where the instruction given and the aspirations stirred conformed always to one overmastering pattern -"The press," said Joseph Stalin, "is the only instrument whereby the party can speak daily and hourly with the workers in its own language...
...public reason." Reason in Russia since 1917 has belonged to the Party. As Schoolmaster to the Russians, the Party taught them to read and guided their reading in those lessons-agricultural, industrial and military-necessary for the primary grades in a new Socialist state. It was not judged important that ordinary people should learn, through Pravda or any of its emulators, anything complicated about life elsewhere. The New York Times's correspondent, G. E. R. Gedye, found, in 1940, that Russians were really unable to differentiate between the regions of the outside world. For many Russians the word Zagranitza...
...happy-go-lucky Socialist deputy who edits La Vanguardia goes laughing away from Chamber sessions to a small dark office in Socialist Party headquarters, swivels before a chaotic desk, attends to the business of paper and party, talks to his friends, licks his pencil and turns out opposition editorials so ironic, incisive and adroit that even his enemies read them. Critica, nearest in spirit to good American newspapers, is a hard-hitting sheet with several editions; in its city room there is more noise and less paciencia than in most. La Prensa, which has 16 editorial writers...