Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grave wit. Both wifeless, they were the liveliest members of the U. S. delegation to the London Economic Conference whiled away many a happy shipboard hour dancing with the delegation's young stenographers. When President Roosevelt made Friend Bullitt first U. S. Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Friend Wiley went along as Counselor of Embassy. Then came a rift in the diplomatic comradeship. Counselor Wiley married a Polish sculptress named Irene Baruch. Relations between Ambassador and Counselor soon cooled to the extent that John Wiley was transferred to Antwerp as Consul General. But the distress...
Suddenly in Paris last week the Communist deputies withdrew their support without warning from the "Popular Front" Cabinet headed by Socialist Leon Blum because of his continued refusal to munition the Reds of Spain. M. Blum, after receiving one of the smallest votes of confidence since his Cabinet was formed, raged at the French Reds who had let him down, "I would resign if conditions were not so grave that my resignation would be understood neither at home nor abroad...
...original pledge," the diplomat continued, "was to transform a backward agrarian country into an advanced, industrial nation, completely capable of protecting its firmly established socialist economy. Today this is a reality...
Oumansky denied that a dictatorship of the proletariat exists in Russia, stating that "proletariat" implies a dispossessed class, and that such a thing could not obtain in a Socialist country. He added that the factor of coercion was subordinate to the factor of education in the Soviet form of government...
...parried, "I did not come here to point out to you the very evident superiority of our system: for in a Socialist state there can exist no class antagonism and this is the very basis for your political parties...