Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rnberg trials as a newspaperman, moved on to Berlin as press attache of the Norwegian military mission. Surveying divided Berlin, he decided: "It is better to be the only democrat in Germany, where democracy is unknown, than one of many in Norway, where everybody understands it." The late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter took Brandt under his wing. Soon Brandt, regaining his German citizenship, became a member of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin's mayor. In 1956, after other leaders had failed...
...whose nerves must remain steady if West Berlin's 2,200,000 people are to remain free is Mayor Willy Brandt, a youngish Socialist with a lifetime of adventure already behind...
Early Life. Born with the name of Herbert Frahm, on Dec. 18, 1913, the son of an unskilled laborer in the German Baltic port of Lübeck. At 17 joined the Socialist Party, fought against Nazis in street brawls. In 1933 fled on a fishing smack to Norway (where he had distant relatives), one leap ahead of Hitler's Gestapo...
...capitalist exploiters," but her words fell on a lethargic gathering of scarcely 30 people, even though she was speaking in the grimy 18th arrondissement, the reddest of the Red districts of Paris. In tiny Ecurie (pop. 362), only 15 men and a runny-nosed boy turned out to hear Socialist Guy Mollet review his premiership, blame "the Americans" for preventing the Anglo-French conquest of Suez. Were any problems bothering his listeners? he asked. "Classrooms for our children," responded...
...that "the entire Polish nation represents little more than a slight miscalculation in Chinese population statistics for one year." In the U.S. some thoughtful men argue that within a generation the U.S. will be helping bolster Soviet defenses against Communist China. Writing in London's New Statesman, British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman reports that he came back from a trip through Red China convinced that "Chinese Communism is far the biggest and far the most formidable mass movement in human history''-a movement which "within the next decade" may transfer the center of the world to Peking...