Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people came. In the thronged square, Social Democratic Leader Ernst Spars climbed on to a platform. He pointed to the overcast skies which had for two weeks been filled with the roar of U.S. planes carrying food to besieged Berlin. "Up there," cried Spars, "the American people are showing their faith in the cause of our Berlin brothers every hour of every day. Yet we-their fellow countrymen-have done nothing. Now we must act! There is not much food for us here in Melsungen, but let us share with those brave Berliners what little we have...
...leaders met last week to consider proposals for a Western German state (TIME, June 14). The plan was a keystone in the dike against Communism which the U.S. is trying to build. Allied officials had feared that the Germans would stall or get bogged down in squabbles between the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats. But in Coblenz, too, Western Germany's new unity before the Russian onslaught worked wonders. The tall, slim bottles of Rhine wine and the excellent cuisine generously furnished by the French may have helped. Socialists and Christian Democrats basically agreed to the Allied proposals...
...Allies would hold a veto over German decisions, and the German leaders, understandably, were ducking responsibility without full authority. The Germans suggested several verbal changes: for "government" they wanted to substitute "economic and administrative area"; for the "constitution" to be drafted in September they suggested "organizational statute." But, said Social Democratic Spokesman Erich Ollenhauer: "We are going ahead shoulder to shoulder with the task of strengthening not only Germany but all democratic Europe...
Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Labor's Health Minister, was in a reminiscent mood last week. But memories of a poverty-haunted childhood in Tredegar, South Wales, left the Minister of Health far from mellow. "No amount of cajolery and no attempts at ethical or social seduction," he told a meeting of Laborites at Manchester, "can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin . . ." "What is Toryism," he asked later, "but organized spivery...
...alone give my students the individual attention they need." In addition, she presides an hour each day over the study hall. She is chairman of the student assembly, chairman of the School Spirit Committee, "homeroom" adviser for 35 students, coach for junior class plays, chairman of the faculty social committee...