Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Party chauvinism among Britain's Socialists is another headache. They fear, and feel, that Europe is moving to the right, that Socialism is losing weight on the Continent. Many of them seem to want a Socialist United States of Europe or none at all. In Paris last fortnight, at a convention of European Socialists, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Daiton told why he and other Labor M.P.s who shared his views would boycott The Hague conference. Said Dalton: "As Socialists we must make sure that the success of the Socialist policy ... is not jeopardized by the premature creation...
Clement Attlee and Ernie Bevin dissociated themselves from this dog-in-the-manger attitude-but they had both been angry when France (which shed its Socialist Premier for a Popular Republican) devalued its currency and permitted free trade in the franc. For one reason, it violated British Socialists' notions of a properly managed currency, and it hurt them worse to discover that it did not seem to hurt France...
Saddest cases were the left-wing Socialists, who under Pietro Nenni had joined the Communists on the single Popular Front ticket. Said tough former Socialist Minister Giuseppe Romita, urging a break with Nenni: "The Popular Front absorbed and nullified our party...
...goal of Germany as a free and constitutional state . . . We know the seriousness of this hour." (The Russian officer has laid aside his nailfile, and listens intently.) With a bold kind of irrelevance that is a measure of her anxiety, Frau Leber-she is a Catholic and a Socialist-calls upon every international authority she can think of to witness Berlin's plight: the International Court, world Socialism, and the Catholic Church. (The Russian officer joins in raucous S.E.D. laughter at mention of the Pope...
Violence & Scorn. When Eastman joined the Socialist Party in 1911, he published a letter in the party newspaper "denouncing respectability, defending violence, and declaring my scorn of 'the good or bad opinion of everybody in the world but the whole fighting proletariat.'" He became editor of The Masses (a Socialist forerunner of the now defunct Communist New Masses...