Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sicilian peasants had voted for the King. In regional elections last week, 34.5% of the voters cast their ballots for the Left. The Christian Democrats were second with 20%, the Qualunquist-Monarchist bloc third with 14%; the rest of the votes went to minor parties. This foreshadowed a Communist-Socialist majority in the national elections next October...
Next day cigar-smoking (and snuff-sniffing) Winston Churchill burned a rag under Laborite noses. Said he, in a London speech: "Our country is being driven to ruin and our Empire is scattered and squandered. Everyone is conscious of the approaching crisis in our financial and economic affairs. The Socialist Government is living on an American dole, and squandering it with profligate rapidity...
...still gaped at the facts & fable of his wealth and power. "Henry bloody Ford," said a Glaswegian. "I am a cheap Ford salesman and Ford's a gentleman. He captured the world. Head of the atomic energy he is too. Mon! He's a fine chap." But Socialist conservatism also spoke. Said a taxi driver: "No, we can't afford Henry Ford today. It's a good thing all that big business is finished over here...
...Vienna, where they don't care for machines anyway, the Socialist Arbeiterzeitung declared: "His creation, the production line . . . reminds us of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, which showed the ridiculous and tragic power of Fordismus over man. . . . Thus Ford was not a friend but an enemy of the worker...
...Italians, Ford was no anachronism. Said Bricklayer Luigi Breschi: "If all owners had poured back the profits in their company like Ford, there would be no need for nationalization." Socialist Leader Giuseppe Saragat warned, through his paper: "Ford loved birds, and built for them an immense natural park-foreign birds wanted none of his artificial freedoms, and flew...