Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II, one small group has been meeting weekly in Manhattan since mid-July, to coach their fellows. This week the War Resisters League (over 17,000 strong), headed by hulking, 6 ft. 4 Evan W. Thomas, New York University professor of medicine and brother of the Socialist candidate for President (like his brother, jailed as a C. O. in World War I), conducted its first New York public test tribunal for youthful dissenters. Questions put included such traditional pacifist posers as "Did not Jesus whip the money-changers out of the temple?" As the nation went, so went...
...Socialist Blum, whose Popular Front has been condemned by Vichy for disrupting French home life, spreading sloth and dissatisfaction among French workers, and generally running France by orders from the U. S. S. R., kept quietly to himself. He wearily stroked his straggling mustache, said little, did little...
...without the help of Radical Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano (on whose support Cardenas relied). "I am a democrat," announced Avila Camacho. "It is my firm belief that the State should lend a hand to the poor and help improve the conditions of workers, but I am not a socialist. I believe in democracy, liberty and the economic welfare of Mexico...
...Peasant organizations and the Polish Socialist Party were doing undercover work and making pan-Slavic overtures to Russia, regarded as a lesser evil than Germany...
...loved. In 1836 George Sand wrote in her diary: "Farewell, Eros! You idol of my youth! . . . The present and future are free for the service of humanity. . . ." She began to write proletarian novels in which heroines no longer deserted their husbands for love but for the revolution and the socialist teachings of Saint-Simon and Louis Blanc...