Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond Eisler there are a host of other men-fellow travelers, confused liberals, "totalitarian liberals" (see INTERNATIONAL), left-wing New Dealers-who owe muddled allegiance to the idea that government should be omnipotently responsible for the lives of its citizens even to the point of benevolent despotism. They fail to understand that despotism, which has a way of beginning with benevolence, usually ends by being merely despotic. Few of them even understood the incompatibility of their views with democracy, or that it is just such views which makes them so sympathetic to Soviet Russia. But the mass of Americans...
...rank & file. He moved in & out of the country freely. (The House Committee held a passport application which demonstrated how the trick was turned. It was dated Aug. 31, 1934, bore the name of a Communist writer, Samuel Liptzen. It was filled out in the handwriting of a left-wing lawyer, one Leon Josephson. Clipped to it was Eisler's photograph...
...leader, tried, amidst jeers, to block the steamroller. Although he and 25 members of his party, now the sole opposition in Parliament, dropped blank votes in the basket, the result was foregone. Next day Bierut named husky, hard-faced, 35-year-old Josef Cyrankiewicz, an able and energetic left-wing Socialist, as Premier. Egg-bald Cyrankiewicz is a onetime artillery officer who was liberated by U.S. troops from the infamous German prison camp at Mauthausen. He has come up fast. Right-wing Socialists accuse him of double-crossing them and swinging to the left after advising them...
Teaming with left wing Cunliffe and Mather in the starting line is captain Ralph Warburton, making his final appearance in a Dartmouth uniform before graduation and a trip to Europe with an AAU hockey team. Jeremiah will have his two huskies, 28-year-old Soup Campbell and George Pulliam at the opening defense spots, with goalie Dick Desmond in the nets. Pulliam and Campbell are both vicious body checkers...
...leader of the movement's "liberal" wing, Lipsky is closely associated with Chaim Weizmann, who is a former President of the World Zionist Organization...