Word: socialistics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most of my impression of America," he says, "has come from reading." A culling of his voluminous written words indicates that he has simply never given the subject much thought. As a British university man, he has perhaps looked down snobbishly at American deficiency in culture. As a sentimental socialist, he has ticked off the U.S. as unrivaled in technology but predatory in its capitalism...
...called for a Congress revitalization, but the reaction has been sluggish. Able Sardar Valkbhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister and Nehru's strong right hand in administration and politics, is too ill and old (74) to beat a new party drum. Some disillusioned Congress followers have turned to the Socialist Party, which has just begun an organizational drive in the villages. Many more, especially from the inflation-harried middle class of clerical workers and small merchants, are turning to the extremists...
...Queuille is a Radical Socialist (in the French spectrum, somewhat to the right of center). For more than a year he had shepherded a coalition cabinet of Radicals, Socialists, and Popular Republicans. He had frozen wages; but prices kept on oozing upward...
...last week the Queuille cabinet had agreed that the lowest-paid workers must have wage bonuses. M. Queuille assumed that the bonus tables would be worked out with himself as arbiter, but Socialist Labor Minister Daniel Mayer abruptly refused to accept this. Queuille had to resign...
President of the Republic Vincent Auriol, tired and ill, wearily conferred with party leaders, then asked Socialist Minister of the Interior Jules Moch to examine his prospects for forming a cabinet. After the Socialists had had their try, M. Auriol would be free to call on anyone he thought could set up and run a working coalition. He might even call, again, on Henri Queuille...