Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three years the Socialist government of neutral Burma has refused to take U.S. aid. It was willing to try barter deals with Iron Curtain nations, only to find that Burma invariably wound up on the losing end. Last week, disillusioned with barters and angered by Russian and Chinese support of Burmese Communists, Burma's new Premier U Ba Swe announced that he hoped to get a long-term low-interest loan of $20 million to $30 million from the U.S. as a business deal "without strings," thus compromising neither Burma's neutrality nor her self-respect...
Towards Equality is the culmination of a long-standing and profound philosophic crisis in the Labor Party. For five years the Socialist Union, a group of right-wing Labor intellectuals sometimes jeeringly called "Gaitskell's household troops," have been trying to work out a "modern" interpretation of Socialist dogma to cope with the fact that Socialist theory is out of date and Karl Marx a political handicap. In a recent book called Twentieth Century Socialism, the "household troops" made some startling admissions. Nationalization of industry, the magic tool that was to transform society, had, they conceded, lost its magic...
...success of Socialist construction and the consolidation of the U.S.S.R. were attributed to Stalin . . . Anyone who had acted in that situation against Stalin would not have received support from the people...
...Socialist Party, West Germany's second largest, had fought a bitter delaying action. During the second reading, all 145 Socialist Deputies walked out of the Bundestag in protest against the speed with which Chancellor Adenauer's government coalition was pushing the bill through. Returning to the attack at the bill's final reading, fiery Socialist Deputy Fritz Erler harped on the nightmare fear that West German rearmament would end all hope of reunification of Germany, and protested that the Germans were being asked to arm at a time when others are reducing their arms. "The twelve West...
...reason for the rise in napoleons is not hard to find, even though France is enjoying good times and has even hung on to the same Premier (Socialist Guy Mollet) for six months now. Two weeks ago the Mollet government gave France the bad tax news to accompany the increase in old-age pensions that the Assembly recently approved. This will add $400 million to the tax bill, to be met by surtaxes on salaries, by an added six francs on the price of every aperitif, and by a special tax on automobiles, rigged to discriminate against U.S. cars. (Cars...