Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today when George VI visits bombed sections of London and other cities, Herbert Morrison is usually at his side. Morrison, "once a rabid socialist" is now Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security. "The King," says Author Kraus, "likes Mr. Morrison's sharp wit and his tight-lipped but so much the more fanatic devotion to England." Morrison likes the King, regrets that he already holds so exalted a job. Morrison, who also runs the London County Council, once enviously sighed: "What an excellent Alderman of London the King would make...
...morning came the Pope's blessing on this agnostic ex-Socialist father and a brief service for the son. Then the coffin, buried pro tempore under wreaths, was taken off to be buried under the soil of Predappio, on one of the little Romagna hillsides where the Mussolinis, the makers of muslin, had always lived. But before he left Pisa, Benito Mussolini went to talk with the five injured survivors. One unwittingly asked how Bruno...
...involves the re-education of the German people and the renunciation by them of militarism and the Prussian qualities which have made them such impossible neighbors in the past. This they will never do voluntarily; it will have to be imposed upon them." In Parliament last week, Socialist John James ("Jack") Lawson cried: "I never thought that I should live to see hundreds of millions of people slaves to the will of one man, and millions, yes millions, massacred and women and children murdered...
Even among the exuberant political beards of France, the beard of Socialist René Marx Dormoy was something special. Its grizzled fullness was a godsend to cartoonists in the days of the Popular Front, when Dormoy as Minister of the Interior was making things hot for the Croix de Feu and the Cagoulards (Hooded Ones), a reactionary Gallic Ku Klux Klan...
...Socialist father, Marx Dormoy remained as uncompromising as his namesake, made lasting enemies among Communists and pro-Nazis. He denounced Pétain in the Chamber of Deputies after the fall of France, agitated for a return of democracy. Interned last autumn, the 52-year-old ex-minister was released this spring to live under police surveillance at Montélimar in the Rhone Valley...