Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paneled "Room for Chamber Music" in Zurich's Congress House, delegates to the International Socialist Congress crammed a 40-hour week of discordant debating into four days, achieved nothing. A Dutch delegate remarked: "It's like a conference of tired businessmen." Said Leon Dennen, an unofficial American observer: "This is an assembly of frightened men, whose aim is to agree on nothing and postpone everything. They are trying to create a new International behind closed doors, hoping it will escape Stalin's attention...
Grumbach nearly failed to reach Zurich because of the railroad strike against France's Socialist Government (see FOREIGN NEWS). The incident was typical of Socialism's state. Said one of the tired businessmen: "I am an optimist. Socialism will progress despite us Socialists...
...reason why France's railworkers were on strike last week. There was no doubt that the Communists, carefully trying to dislodge Premier Paul Ramadier's Redless Government, were abetting the strike. But not only Communists supported the workers. Many leaders within Ramadier's own Socialist Party were for them, as was a large section of France's Catholic labor organizations...
...shutout left predicted its imminent return to power, after the new Government's inevitable flop. Cried pro-Communist Socialist Pietro Nenni: "What goes out the window will come in the door." That was a clear cue for the U.S. not to let the new Government flop; it might be difficult to protect Ministers who are as inept as they are well-meaning...
...Meiji Shrine, if it knew what was happening at the Diet building a few miles away. Though some might say that Japanese politics there were being run according to the familiar prewar stage directions, there were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist Suehiro Nishio, is a former steel worker...