Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attitude: A perfect Stalin-Khrushchev party servant, a dedicated Communist and agile follower of the weaving party line, who has said: "From our point of view, it is as inevitable as the night follows day that the capitalist system will be replaced by the socialist system...
...mannered ex-school master, Premier Guy Mollet, pulled out his copybook last week and took a timely lesson from Marshal Foch at the 1918 Battle of the Marne. Deserted by his coalition partner, Mendes-France, under withering bombardment from all sides for his handling of the North African crisis, Socialist Mollet marched out to demand a vote of confidence from the Assembly...
...years ago Party Philosopher Djilas dared to criticize the political rigidity of the Yugoslav Communist Party and the loose morals of its hierarchy. He called for a "democratic-socialist" party to contest Tito's one-party rule. Thus Djilas brought Tito's wrath down on his head, lost his party rank and privileges. His punishment might have been worse. The fact that it was not probably stems from Tito's desire to stay on good terms with the social democratic parties of Western Europe: British Socialists, among others, urged Tito to go easy on Djilas...
...that Yugoslavia might "slip back into the evil paths." He added, "This is none of my business ... I am only concerned with the human side of the administration, and I still hope that, in your relations with individuals, you can show to the world the basic superiority of a socialist social system...
Manhattan's Daily Worker, tripping lately over a weaving party line, tripped last week over the Communists' longtime claim that Russia is a classless society. "In the leading and biggest socialist country, the U.S.S.R.," said the Worker, "classes have been completely abolished." Next day, under the headline CORRECTION, the Worker set everybody straight: "The sentence should have read '. . . exploiting classes have been completely abolished...