Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senaga brought forth a longtime lieutenant named Saichi Kaneshi to run for his old job. Kaneshi's only opponent was Tatsuo Taira, a onetime Japanese bureaucrat and small businessman whom U.S. authorities ejected as governor of Okinawa in 1952 because of his vaguely Socialist and pro-Japanese leanings. In the campaign, even Businessman Taira charged that "the Americans are trampling on the will of the people." As for Left-Winger Kaneshi, he called on the electorate to "avenge Senaga." Much of the time, Kaneshi sat smirking nervously at the back of his own platform while ex-Mayor Senaga hailed...
Last week the tension between writer and commissar stretched even tighter. The party decided to turn the independent-minded daily Sztandar Mlodych (Standard of Youth) into a house organ for the Communists' discredited Union of Socialist Youth Association. Then Stalinist Author Leon Kruczkowski, chairman of the party's Cultural Commission, bluntly warned the press that censorship will become an even stronger "weapon of cultural policy...
Mute Deputies. The first vote was the crucial one-for the chairmanship of the Assembly. The SRs nominated Chernov; the Bolsheviks, Marya Skpiridonova. Chernov won, 244-151. Apparently, he had the pathetic hope that the Reds might be persuaded to moderation and compromise; his speech was couched in Socialist and international tones, as though attempting to placate the Bolsheviks and appealing for the unity that all Russia desperately wanted. The response was bloodthirsty. "Bullets are the only way!" screamed the Bolsheviks. In answer to Chernov, Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin strode to the platform to cry, "We demand a dictatorship...
...efficiently re-elected himself in a one-candidate plebiscite a fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 30), he announced an amnesty for the 3,000 oppositionists jailed during what had passed for an election campaign. Already free-and given 17 days to get out of the country-was Christian Socialist Rafael Caldera, who would have been the Catholic Party's candidate for President had not the dictator jailed him four months ago. Jovially, the President went on to a midnight dinner...
...news spread through the region, priests and mayors locked horns. "Politics cannot go beyond the tomb!" wrote a Red-strafing priest, Reggio Emilia's Don Wilson Pignanoli, in his paper. La Liberta. "Inquisition!" cried the party-lining Socialist paper, Avanti!. "It seems to us that a dying man should be able to choose for his tombstone the symbols he believed in while he lived, whether they are religious or political. What about the Star of David over tombs of Jews? And lamps which illuminate the headstones of free thinkers...