Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Debre are expected to keep much of De Gaulle's present team in office: Antoine Pinay as Finance Minister, capable Career Diplomat Maurice Couve de Murville as Foreign Minister, and safe Civil Servant Emile Pelletier as Interior Minister. One likely departure is Minister of State Guy Mollet, whose Socialist Party dislikes De Gaulle's new austerity budget. Mollet talks of the need to create a loyal opposition, so that resentment particularly among the workers, can be expressed through others than the Communists...
...Critics. They think Mountbatten both arrogant and vain, criticize his habit of showing up last at meetings, when they say he grabs attention with just that little extra disturbance that the final arrival can create. They complain that Lady Mountbatten, the former Edwina Ashley, is a Socialist and a "do-gooder." By other critics, Mountbatten will always be remembered as the last Viceroy of India, who cooperated with the Labor government in presiding over the breakup of the British Empire...
Between a cagey, determined peasantry on one side and the knowledge that Nikita Khrushchev must think this is a poor way to run a socialist country, Gomulka must do a delicate dance. Just before his Moscow trip last fall, he proclaimed that renewed collectivization "is inevitable." Immediately, private farmers began slaughtering livestock to avoid being forced to turn it over to the state. They sold so many calves on the open market that Poland, glutted with meat in 1958, faces a meat shortage...
...trend, the government announced last week that it would pay up to 36% higher prices for compulsory livestock deliveries. But the government's prices are still far below the free market prices. Gomulka is caught in a dilemma: he cannot go on as a leader of a socialist country whose farm sector is only 1% socialist; yet every time he breathes too strongly in the socialist direction, the peasantry resists...
...over Berlin will not take place," proclaimed West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt last week. Though conceding that "many critical moments" must be expected in 1959, Socialist Brandt based his confident forecast on three successive victories won in the last weeks of 1958: 1) West Berlin's municipal election, in which Communists got less than 2% of the vote; 2) West Germany's demonstration of solid economic support to the beleaguered city; and 3) the Western Allies' united stand against Khrushchev's proposal for their withdrawal...