Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heated caucus of the Communist Party councils, rank-and-file militants said they had been having a hard time explaining how the Communists could oppose the war in Algeria and still support the Socialist government. They demanded a show of hands, even though such a demand is hard to square with the theory of Communist discipline. The party elders, however, felt bound to hew to the Kremlin's new doctrine of fraternizing with the Socialists, whether or not the comradeship is reciprocated...
...thousand troops last week swung a long dragnet out from the Moroccan border, began inching northward toward the sea, where ten warships waited for the advance to flush out fleeing rebels. In the Kabylie area, some 210 villages once controlled by the rebels offered their submission. But in Paris, Socialist Finance Minister Paul Ramadier announced gloomily that the North African war was costing a billion francs ($2,850,000) a day-as much as the Indo-China war took at its peak, and without any U.S. help. To pay for it, he asked for another $285 million in revenue...
...Premier Guy Mollet, like most of his Socialists, was acutely uncomfortable with his program of repression. Without publicity, the government has been trying to establish unofficial contact with rebel leaders. Last March, French Union Councilor Georges Gorse, a former Socialist deputy married to an Egyptian, traveled to Cairo, ostensibly to discuss trade but actually to meet the members of the National Liberation Front in their Cairo headquarters. More recently, French representatives unofficially got in touch with the rebels' military leader, Mohammed Ben Bella, on one of his trips to Madrid. So far there has been no progress, since...
...nearly a decade Italian Socialists have been living with the bitter aftermath of the day in January 1947 when a lean, jut-jawed young intellectual bearing an honored name rose to address a party congress in the Great Hall of Rome University. The speaker was Matteo Matteotti. His father was Socialist Leader Giacomo Matteotti, modern Italy's No. 1 political martyr...
Young Matteo Matteotti, bone-bred Socialist that he was, was nonetheless outraged by the alliance which Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni had just made with the Communists. Sadly, Matteotti charged Nenni with spreading "fear and terrorism" in the party. Then, amidst cries of "degenerate son," he stalked out to help organize a splinter group, which eventually became the anti-Communist Social Democratic Party...