Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is commonly cited as the outstanding "Socialist" expression by Edward VIII and it was stretched at the time by some Laborites into an indication that "King Edward the Eighth will be England's first Socialist King!" Happily last week the nationwide coal strike which has been angrily brewing this winter as miners demanded a daily increase of two shillings was settled as the miners agreed to take one shilling-an auspicious economic opening for His Majesty's reign...
...larger and more ominous question of where the Royal Family is to stand in the event that a really Socialist Cabinet is ushered in, His Majesty gave a clue during the British Coal Strike which precipitated the British General Strike of 1927. At that time the Soviet Government, through the Third International, were pouring some $2,000,000 into British strikers' funds and Labor leaders in London were publicly exclaiming: "Thank God for Moscow!" With tension extreme, Edward of Wales created a national sensation by dispatching his personal check for $50 to the Somerset Miners Distress Fund with this...
Astute and worldly Pierre Laval took one look last week at the impossible situation created for his Cabinet by the resignation of its Radical Socialist members for internal party reasons and refused to go before the Chamber of Deputies...
Since M. Laval is of the Moderate Right, the Socialists & Communists exulted. Cried Socialist Leader Leon Blum: "We shook the Radical Socialist plum tree until Laval fell...
...Note: Independent as Pierre Laval may be in name, in the past he has definitely associated himself with the party which last week read him out, and his late government rested largely upon its support. It is a matter of common knowledge that the Radical Socialist party is less "Radical" than the Socialist, and the term "further on the conservative side" as used in the Crimson was mere editorial comparison. As for "Gallic tastes", Laval's disregard for the League of Nations has been notorious, and as long as he remained Premier his conduct must be taken as representative...