Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Macmillan is amused to find himself described as a right-winger, since for years in the '305 he was considered a near Socialist. But he believes that the present decade should be a period of economic opportunity for individuals in Britain, not one of mass equality. To his way of thinking, there was a time for Socialism, or at least for equality, and in its essential aspects he welcomed the welfare state. He fought for it. He wrote books that he hoped would help bring it into being. He does not regret feeling...
POLAND Gomulka's Lonely Road Two toasts offered at a Warsaw reception last week neatly characterized the widening split in world Communism. Said Red China's Premier Chou Enlai: "I propose a toast to the . . . solidarity of the Socialist countries headed by the U.S.S.R." Replied Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka: "I toast the Polish Party's . . . attitude of international proletarian solidarity . . . based on principles of equality and mutual respect...
...wily Chou was plugging the Socialist brotherhood of little brothers subservient to the Big Soviet Brother; Gomulka wanted a Socialist brotherhood in which all brothers would be equal. Ailing, bespectacled Gomulka was walking a lonely and dangerous road. He had taken a step unprecedented in Communist countries by calling elections this week that would not be truly free, but would at least allow a limited number of alternate choices as candidates from tame fronts, as well as the usual fixed slate of Communists...
...everything he did, Gomulka was being pulled one way by his own people, another way by Moscow. Last week, faced with a chaotic farm problem, he retreated farther than any avowedly Socialist or Communist country ever has before from the doctrinaire Marxist position on land ownership. To encourage those collective farms still operating (some 7,500 of 10,-ooo have been abandoned since Gomulka took power) he will reduce by one-third the state requisitions from them, and pay twice as much for what the state does get. For other land, restrictions will be removed from ownership, leases, purchases...
...prospects of visits by two European socialist politicos not noted for their friendliness to the Stars and Stripes. West Germany's opposition boss, roly-poly Erich Ollenhauer, definitely planned on conferring with Washington bigwigs next month. In Britain, toned-down Laborite Aneurin Bevan mulled a springtime trip "to study U.S. policy...