Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burma, 42-year-old Socialist Premier Thakin Nu, who had translated How to Win Friends and Influence People into Burmese, was making new friends himself. He had already announced the expropriation of some British companies in Burma. Last week he called for abolition of capitalism, for the propagation of Marxism and friendship with Russia. Said Winston Churchill when he heard the news: Burma is "descending into a state of anarchy tempered by Communism." Later, assured that no outright Communists would be included in Burma's cabinet, the former "thakins" (masters) in London relaxed, but not much...
...squeezed out by the Reds a year ago. Ferenc Nagy (rhymes with dodge), ex-Premier and leader of the Smallholders Party, now a small holder (130 acres) in Virginia, was a contributing editor. Others : Exile Tibor Eckhardt, onetime head of the U.S. "Free Hungarian" movement; Charles Peyer, right-wing Socialist leader...
...many papers give too many people on the Left too much reason to believe that they print too much stuff from the Right." For that reason, said Denver Post Editor Palmer Hoyt (see below) last week, he had hired Socialist Norman Thomas to cover the G.O.P. and Democratic conventions. Hoyt, who had been impressed by Thomas' guest editorials in the Post, promptly sold his convention coverage to twelve other papers (including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Houston Post...
...leaven its solid fare of political and artistic comment, London's socialist New Statesman and Nation conducts weekly "competitions" in epigrams, limericks, etc. Recently readers were asked to play a game originated by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. On BBC's Brains Trust program (Britain's sprightly Town Meeting of the Air), he had humorously conjugated an "irregular verb" as "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool...
...University of Chicago when the Midway was little more than a swampy sandlot. At Harvard he had stood at the head of his class, remained as an instructor after graduating. During his 43 years at the University of Chicago, Lovett joined everything he was invited to join except the Socialist Party. He was a leader of such starry-eyed, leftish setups as the League for Industrial Democracy and the League of American Writers. For one year he was editor of the Dial, a famed fortnightly magazine whose staff included Philosopher John Dewey and Economist Thorstein Veblen; later he spent eight...