Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strongest show of unity in the Fourth Republic's history, the Assembly (150 Communists dissenting) voted to back the show of force, in a resolution condemning Nasser as "a permanent menace to peace." Observing the all-Communist opposition, Socialist Mollet said bitterly: "It is sufficient for a cause to be anti-French for Communists to support it. It is a question now, if the Nasser-Shepilov pact will have the same result as the pact of Hitler and Molotov...
...discussion with his old friend Italian Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, Florence's cheerful, chirpy little Mayor Giorgio La Pira once argued that bankers should divide their funds with the poor. "They would go to prison," replied Socialist Saragat. Christian Democrat La Pira, whom Florentines sometimes call "the Saint," shook his head. "Oh, no," said he, "they would go to Paradise...
...Collaboration. By itself, La Pira's party had only 25 out of 60 council seats while a left-wing coalition (Communist, Nenni Socialist and four independent Marxists) held 27. Left-wingers crowed that La Pira could stay in office only by accepting Communist support, thereby beginning Italy's first conspicuous "collaboration between Catholicism and Marxism," which Christian Democratic national headquarters steadfastly opposes. This La Pira flatly refused...
...necessary absolute majority of 31 votes. Finally came the crucial fifth ballot when, by Italian law, the candidate with the most votes wins whether or not he has an absolute majority. Intently the tight-packed crowd listened as the clerk called out the results: blank ballots-6; Nenni Socialist Raffaello Ramat-27; La Pira...
...that is curiously lovable because whether in life or on the screen it is so remote from any form of viciousness or meanness." Only the august Times held out, printing not a word of the Monroe presence in London. It was promptly taken to task in the double-domed, socialist New Statesman and Nation: "The Times is a news paper-indeed, according to some, still the greatest newspaper in the world. And a newspaper ought at least to mention an event which clearly excites and interests a very large number of people and by reason of that fact alone...