Word: socialistics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hail of Complaints. As a result of the Congress Party's vacillation, India's Socialist Party, though still small, is gradually gaining members, many from disillusioned Congress ranks. A typical recent convert was Sarangdhar Das, an engineer, who summed up much of India's present resentments when he described a visit to his native province: "The villagers were no longer exulting in freedom. Instead, they came at me with a hail of complaints -where is our cloth, where is our food, where is our fuel? I urged them to plant trees for fuel. They pointed...
...Brussels, Spaak's fellow Socialists pledged a diehard fight against the King's return. "We shall not pour water into our wine," growled burly Socialist Boss Max Buset. "We are now in the opposition and we will counterattack...
India's jails are jammed with Communists and other dissidents. Recently, Socialist Leader Ram Manohar Lohia, an old friend of Nehru's, was clapped in jail for leading a street demonstration. Nehru sent mangoes to his cell...
...They, say (the American critics in particular) that Britain's woes have a simple origin in the socialist doctrines of the Labor Government-which is untrue. They say (the European critics in particular) that the British people are making less effort to get out of their troubles than the other peoples of Western Europe-which is not only untrue, but unfair and grossly insulting...
...When the President announced the formation of this board he was in fact announcing an industrial revolution in America. By doing so he has . . . proclaimed that wages shall be fixed by the Government. This step is always the first one taken by those who set out to establish a socialist or corporative state. The fixing of profits comes next, and then when incentive is killed and production falls, the final step of nationalization follows...