Word: socialistics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chauffeur was away, so he hailed a taxi. "The radio building," he ordered the driver. "Sorry, m'sieur," said the cabby, "I haven't the time to drive you. Premier Spaak speaks on the radio tonight, in a few minutes in fact, and like a loyal Socialist I'm going to listen." Glowing with pleasure at the words, Belgium's Premier nevertheless had to get to the broadcast. Still concealing his identity, he waved a banknote at the reluctant driver. "Ah," said the latter, "step in, step in. After all, that villain Spaak has been repeating...
...himself. "Toward the end," a member of his staff confided, "he was giggling." In Rio de Janeiro, 0 Mundo, called Harry Truman's victory "the most sensational news since the launching of the atomic bomb." In London (though U.S. shares dipped), British stocks went up. London's socialist Tribune took credit for not being too greatly surprised, republished a July cartoon showing Harry Truman feeling fine...
Unfortunately, this view is more hopeful than reasonable. First, not only is French labor in general hostile to de Gaulle, but important bloes of workers are controlled by the Communists. If labor goes out on strike against socialist governments, it will most assuredly strike against de Gaulle. His prospects of restoring order to French industry are worse than those of the current administration...
Secondly, the Communists are evidently trying to put de Gaulle in power. Their hold on labor will be stronger under a conservative government, and many radicals who are now for Queille might join them. The Communist Party is doing everything it can to wreck the socialist coalition; and if the socialists fall, it will be de Gaulle--not Communist leader Thorez--who will take charge. Under a de Gaulle government, Communist agitation through the unions would force an already conservative leader to move further towards dictatorship...
...chaotic France means, to a large extent, a chaotic Europe. But it is unlikely that de Gaulle can bring recovery back to France. His advent to power will only mean a further split in that country, and in Europe. The West must place its hopes with the socialist moderates who now hold shaky authority, and recognize that a de Gaulle government will be a damaging defeat for the free world...