Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action they had been asking for. To those who said that his Cabinet was too stupid or too stiffly Tory, or both, he responded with a general Cabinet reshuffle in which some of the stiffest Tories went out of the window and Britain's most eminent Socialist, Sir Stafford Cripps, came boldly in the front door...
Cripps & Lyttelton. The Prime Minister cut his War Cabinet from nine to seven ministers. The appointment of Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps to sit among these seven as Lord Privy Seal was sensational, since he was also to replace the Prime Minister as the Government's representative in the House of Commons...
This claim the scholarly Socialist Blum countered with a tirade as eloquent and intellectually keen as any in his long career. The raw edges of his mustache waved like flags as he charged that "the best-armed army in the world will go under if the commanders don't know how to inspire the will to fight." With Gamelin mute, said he, the onus of war guilt was on political leaders, and, if so, where were the still-imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and ex-Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel...
...thing, the convictions can be confused with a condemnation of the doctrines of the Socialist Workers' Party, to which the defendants belong. Because Marxist and Trotskyist literature was discovered in the Party offices, and because the defendants are believers in the Socialist doctrine of a working class revolution, they were convicted. The prosecution's attempt to pin the threat of immediate armed revolution on them was thrown out of court as an ungrounded farce...
...question in blunt terms-blunter than England ever likes to be-is whether Britain is going Socialist permanently. Last week a sign of this "revolution" loomed high above the horizon in the shape of Sir Stafford Cripps's well-molded head, lighted by his fierce black eyes. Sir Stafford, home from Russia, which he intensely admires in peace no less than in war, made clear that he proposed to be the head of the opposition to Churchill. With Englishmen saddened by their own defeats and praying for Red victories, Sir Stafford had a beautiful tactical position. Whether he would...