Word: socialistics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist Britain was a "fool's purgatory," millions of Britons were the fools. They liked it-at least they liked it better than what they thought the Tories would give them. As the anti-Socialist Economist recently said: "Instead of standing forth as the champions of wise and vigorous government [the Tories] have allowed themselves, by talking in generalities about abstract principles such as 'freedom' and 'enterprise,' to be represented as the captious remnant of a bygone social order. . . They have treated the rise of Socialism as an aberration from the normal British...
...Runs the Show? To operate his plan Bevan has appointed 138 executive councils, each composed of 25 members who serve as volunteers, somewhat as do the members of U.S. draft boards. Bevan insisted, in opposition to some of his Socialist colleagues, that the boards remain nonpolitical, i.e., that Conservatives may serve on them. "We have taken money out of medicine," he said. "I will not let politics take hold." British hospitals, virtually all taken over by the Ministry, are run by special hospital boards, usually composed of the same officials who ran them before. In the whole British health service...
Norman Thomas, perennial Socialist Party presidential candidate, asked for the "nation's economic Salvation' through scientific government control of basic industries such as steel and transportation. In advocating this he contradicted the arguments of both his opponents at the Law School Forum in Rindge Tech last night on the subject of governmental regulation of economy...
...election day approached, bright posters of the Communist-Socialist coalition and the new anti-Communist bloc, the Popular Alliance, were plastered on the ancient stone houses. Loudspeakers began to bray through the narrow streets. Shrilled one black-shawled peasant woman: "Why don't they both just jump off a cliff and give us some peace!" The People's Alliance, which had picked for its emblem the country's founder, Saint Marinus (who once bridled and saddled a big brown bear), shouted for its slogan "Vote for Long Beard (San Marino), not for Big Whiskers (Stalin...
...home 197 Sammarinesi from Genoa, another four or five hundred from the rest of Italy, and 130 who went to France as coal miners. That ought to be enough to swing the election, I think." On election day the expatriates came home with all expenses paid by the Communist-Socialist coalition...