Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking ahead to the Constituent Assembly elections next spring, the right wing feared lest it lose prospective votes by remaining in an unpopular coalition. First the Liberals, then the Christian Democrats and Labor Democrats walked out on the Actionists, Socialists and Communists. The six parties seemed irreparably parted. Cried Benedetto Croce's Liberals: "The era of antifascism should end, giving way to a new, peaceful constructive era of post-fascism. . . ." Protested Christian Democrat leader Alcide de Gasperi: "Fascism will never happen again. Never." Growled Pietro Nenni's Socialists: Italian reaction, egged on by Anglo-American capital, was plotting...
...Gaulle apparently did not have equal support from the Socialists. Although the party last August overwhelmingly rejected fusion with the Communists, though it also stands for a western bloc, it fears that an open break with the Communists would be unpopular with many Socialist voters...
Died. William W. Norton, 54, publisher (W. W. Norton & Co.) of popular books on tough, unpopular subjects (e.g., Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million'), chairman of the Council on Books in Wartime, which sponsored the widely read Armed Services Editions; of a rare blood disease; in Manhattan...
...learned that there was no passive defense against aggression. As Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State in 1931, he had spoken out almost alone against the Japs' first thrust at China. From then on he had refused to recognize Axis conquest, even when it was unpopular to refuse...
Clothes are so important that if you don't dress right (i.e., like everybody else) you "might as well be dead!" She might far better be dead, of course, than unpopular with other girls. She is "not in much of a hurry to grow up," yet essentially she is serious-minded. The teen-agers who give expert advice to the psychologists also advised the producers of this issue of MARCH...