Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caro Lloyd Strobell, 81, Illinois-born, graduate of Vassar College in 1881. Wife of a Manhattan schoolmaster, George Strobell, Mrs. Strobell had three ancestors in General Washington's Army. Slight Mrs. Strobell became a Socialist in 1898, was a pioneer in birth-control research, has no children...
...delegates of the 21 American Republics met in Havana last week to face the transoceanic threat of fascism, the struggle of democracy v. fascism was already making history in the Western Hemisphere. Bombs, of the firework variety, were set off in the streets of Santiago, Chile by the Popular Socialist Vanguard -former Chilean Nacista (Nazi) Party. At the same time members strewed the town with pamphlets, attacking tough little pockmarked President Pedro Aguirre Cerda for pardoning the carabineros who shot down 62 Nazi students in the abortive 1938 revolt...
Aguirre's shaky Popular Front Government, weakened by dissensions among its Radical, Socialist and Communist members, retaliated by raiding extreme Rightist parties' headquarters. In offices of the openly fascist Nacionalistas, the Government-supporting press reported police had discovered plans of a secret system of revolutionary cells and papers describing a uniformed Nacionalista militia, drilled by onetime German Army Officer Brigadier Wiegold. The alarmed Government promptly issued a declaration dissolving "all apparently political organizations" formed by Rightists...
...France," designated himself as Chief of State, 57-year-old Pierre Laval as his successor. In his new twelve-man Cabinet, key posts went to the men who had surrounded him since France sued for peace: Ministry of Defense to General Maxime Weygand, Ministry of Interior to Neo-Socialist Adrien Marquet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Businessman Paul Baudouin...
Laval had grown rich while in politics, through being in the know. An old Socialist from the French backwoods, his political philosophy had moved steadily to the Right. Whether he and the interests he represented feared Communism more than Hitler was not precisely the question. They had no stomach for the war, but neither had the people of France. French industry, French labor and France's political leaders dawdled through nine months of war while Germany grew stronger & stronger. Laval the Appeaser had no place in the Government, but when Paul Reynaud, foe of appeasement, succeeded Edouard Daladier...