Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phuoc led French counter-espionage agents to an Indo-Chinese Socialist in whose home police found 80 copies of the Revers report. The Socialist said he had received the report from a known informer whom the cops suspected of playing a double or triple game-informing not only for the French in Indo-China, but also for Ho Chi-Minh's Communists, and possibly checking on Ho for Moscow. The informer in turn told police that he got the report from General Charles Emmanuel Mast, onetime Resident-General in Tunisia, since 1947 on the inactive list...
...least one Roman senator, grey, motherly, left-wing Socialist Angelina Merlin, this situation was a "social disgrace." A year ago last August, she introduced a bill to outlaw houses of prostitution in Italy...
...wingers to vote against "a typical plague of bourgeois society." The Communists found allies in their old adversaries the Christian Democrats. "We can't afford," said one Christian Democratic politician, "to give the Communists an opportunity to attack us on moral grounds." Of all the senators, only dissident Socialist Pieraccini spoke out against abolition with any real vehemence. "[The bill] would turn all Italy into the sex jungle of Europe," he roared. "We are all senators here," Pieraccini persisted, in earthy phrases. "How many of us can say we have never been in a whorehouse? Only about...
...Communist claque in the spectators' gallery drowned out the rest of Kostov's statement. When the din had subsided, Kostov's lawyer apologized for "defending" him, and called for the maximum penalty. A lawyer, he said, should not try to help a guilty client: "In a Socialist state there is no division of duty between the judge, prosecutor and defense counsel." Next day the court found Kostov guilty of treason and sentenced him to the gallows; his ten codefendants, all of whom had pliantly "confessed" and testified against Kostov, got off with life terms or less...
Recently Grotewohl's conscience, and the scorn of his former Socialist friends, seemed to trouble him. Last year he paid a secret call on U.S. and British officials in Berlin, offered to desert the Communists and work for the West. His only condition was that the Socialists in the Western zone welcome him back into the party. Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher scornfully refused. Grotewohl continued serving the Russians. When the Reds set up their puppet regime in Germany, they made Grotewohl chancellor. In his fine, freshly painted office, the chancellor found little work to do; the Russians...