Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With no sizable community of French colons to harass and badger it, the Paris government has been able to conduct a far more consistent policy than it has elsewhere. When Socialist Guy Mollet became Premier in 1956, he appointed as Minister of Overseas Territories the far-sighted mayor of Marseilles, Gaston Defferre. While his colleagues busied themselves with a disastrous Algerian policy that eventually led to rebellion, Defferre drafted a really effective loi-cadre (skeleton law) for French West Africa. Though the chief executive of each territory was to be a Paris-appointed premier, responsible for defense and foreign relations...
...incorrigible troublemaker for France, he is a ruthless man who used to burn the houses of his enemies, and looks upon the loi-cadre as only one step toward autonomy. But the French regard him benignly as one of the ablest administrators in the whole territory. "I am no socialist," says he, "and neither are my colleagues. We have studied the principles of socialism, Communism, the M.R.P., the European Unionists, and we have adopted principles which correspond to the needs of Africa today." Chief need of Africa: "Lots of capital. But to attract it we must inspire confidence in investors...
...world record for wheat harvesting. Watching the spectacle from a vantage point overlooking his 65,000-acre farm stood white-thatched Thomas Donald Campbell, 76, the world's biggest wheat farmer, and two astonished guests. The guests: Dmitry Omelyanenko, 48, Vice Minister of Agriculture of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and Mikhail Krylov, 28, an agricultural economist, both members of an eleven-man Russian agricultural mission invited by the U.S. State Department to visit American farms...
...home, he was soon to find, in the unemployed of the Depression, the least of breeds within the law. The industrial North impressed him as the dark side of a lunar slagheap landscape on which Empire's sun had set. After Orwell turned to socialism - an Old-Etonian socialist who was prepared to be serious about it was a rare thing in those days -he was quickly tapped for great things in the world of left-wing propaganda. He went on his pilgrimage to the poor on commission from the influential Left Book Club, run by a notable socialist...
...notions which some critics today would find odd. For instance, he was convinced that British bellies were largely fed on the loot of Empire; it has not turned out that way. But Orwell's polemics against bearded, fruit-juice-drinking pacifists, cranks, snobs, snob-bolsheviks, cowards in the socialist movement is devastating stuff, and this lends sharp irony to the book today. With great acumen the present publishers have reprinted Victor Gollancz's original foreword, in which the socialist publisher apologizes for the heretical opinions of his socialist writer. Says Gollancz in shocked tones: "He even commits...