Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your issue of Nov. 3 under heading People you write: "The day that Socialist Norman Thomas made an anti-war talk outside the University of California, his son, Evan, 21, quit Princeton to drive an ambulance for the British in the Near East...
...TIME'S one-sentence report did not intend to imply that pacific Socialist Thomas and his son were at odds, simply that their reactions to the war were in striking contrast...
...various arguments against American interest in the war. He shows the tremendous difference between the temporary abrogation of civil rights, planned and agreed to by representatives of the people, in Parliament and in the trade unions, and life under Hitler. He demonstrates the complete impracticability, even for sincere socialists, of advocating "turning the war into a civil war" and creating a socialist government to carry on the struggle. We must win the war first, says Laski, because any great change would wreck the war machine, and without victory over the external enemy, both socialism and democracy would be lost...
...reverse is true. A comparatively small number of employees can supply world needs. The old-fashioned distributive mechanism has broken down. This has meant the most tremendous sort of dislocations in both domestic and international political and social relations. It has meant in home affairs that the socialist planning idea has grown to such an extent that New Dealism has realized many of its aims. In international affairs it is manifest in the breakdown of export-industrialism and free trade. Not only is this true in Germany where the ultimate solution was war for living room, but also in England...
...Minneapolis Federal Court today 23 men and women are on trial for the high crime of expressing an opinion about the propriety of overthrowing the United States Government by force and violence. These people, officials of the Socialist Workers Party, and of the Minneapolis local of the Teamsters' Union, are victims of the first important attack on free speech at least since 1939. As we move towards war, the danger to civil liberties increases. If this initial battle is lost, the danger will be even greater, and we may find ourselves fighting off fascism from without, only to have...