Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pendulum v. River. Lest Britain's ruling class be lulled into false security by the National Government's election victory, good for another five years, The Illustrated London News made graphically the point that since 1900 the Labor or Socialist vote has grown in the United Kingdom from a trickle to a stream to a great river. This illustration (see cut) was meant to correct the comfortable error of many Britons who are wont to speak of "the pendulum" of votes swinging alternately to Right and Left but always tending to subside in the Middle. This error...
...dirt, libel and "inside dope" with such abandon that their passionate editors give at least the impression of sincerity. Yelped one such editor last week: "Shoot down like dogs the 160 Senators who want to suppress the Fascist Leagues!" Screamed another: "I take the responsibility for killing Leon Blum [Socialist Party Leader...
...been the home of King Albert and Queen Elisabeth before their elevation to the throne. There old Cardinal Mercier used to drop in to play with the five Phillips children and there the King & Queen called often. Crown Prince (now King) Leopold attended all their better parties, and the Socialist leader Emile Vandervelde went there to discuss with his friend Phillips the social problems of the underprivileged. Recall. After Brussels, Ottawa was a comedown in rank, accepted deliberately, when Calvin Coolidge offered it, so that the Phillips children could attend school in the U. S. In Canada Mr. & Mrs. Phillips...
...handsome young British League of Nations Minister Captain Anthony Eden, nor by his Government. With the seasoned diplomat's flair for keeping his own fingers out of the broth, Captain Eden went around to the League's International Labor Office and exerted his charm on that semi-Socialist and anti-Fascist quarter. Soon he had steamed up Chairman Dr. Walter Alexander Riddell of the Governing Body of the International Labor Office, dean of Geneva's diplomatic corps, and permanent Canadian representative at the League of Nations. Next, cables informed the world that "Canada"' had proposed adding...
...France of its discount rate failed to halt the flow. Instead it quickened. The radical parties opposing M. Laval redoubled what they call their politique du pire-tactics "to make everything worse & worse." As the Chamber of Deputies met after a five-month recess last week both the Socialist Populaire and the Radical Socialist L'Oeuvre predicted an immediate, bloody "March on Paris" by French Fascists. "The plan of attack includes assaults upon the Chamber of Deputies and various Ministries," flatly declared L'Oeuvre. "In the early hours of the uprising a certain number of summary executions...