Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's most significant story in Foreign News came in scattered pieces. Gaitskell, Mollet and Ollenhauer-the big names of Europe's three major socialist parties-all faced the same kind of trouble: the noisy outcries of leftist factions demanding that their parties outbid others in proposing compromises with the Russians. In Britain, Hugh Gaitskell challenged the nation's most powerful labor union by sternly rejecting its demand that Britain renounce the H-bomb. In France, Guy Mollet bluntly told his followers that if it is neutralism they want for France, he would quit as leader...
...political experts expected Socialism to dominate European politics after World War II. Socialism did have its fling in Britain and its hour as part of coalition regimes in France, but in recent years Western Europe's trend has been increasingly conservative. Bitter over being out of power, the Socialist parties, too doctrinally dogmatic to fit in with the current prosperity, too inclined toward neutralism to fit in with the realities of the cold war, are now being rent by dispute. Since their economic doctrines no longer appeal, left-wingers among them have been agitating for a softer cold...
...have lost the last three elections and seem doomed to lose .the next-unless they stop calling Volkswagen-driving Germans "comrades," discard their faded red proletarian banners and try to attract the middle-class votes that alone can win them first place. The dissension in West Germany's Socialist opposition has been largely obscured by the spectacular personal struggle between Chancellor Adenauer and Vice Chancellor Erhard in the ruling Christian Democrats...
...sense it was Nikita Khrushchev who forced the decision. Last March Leftist Social Democrats put over a new party program, hoping to reunify Germany by appeasing the Russians. But when Ollenhauer went hat in hand to Khrushchev in Berlin, he found the Soviet leader frankly contemptuous of the Socialists' offer of German withdrawal from NATO. After that humiliating meeting, Socialist popularity fell. Instead of gaining from the Adenauer-Erhard bickering, the Socialist standing in public opinion polls has plummeted from 32% to 26%. When Ollenhauer bowed out last week, the leftists also took a beating...
...Socialist Guy Mollet, once Premier of France for 16 months, a record for the Fourth Republic, was one of the key men in paving the way for General de Gaulle's peaceful return to power. But in the elections that followed, his Socialists-a party of fonctionnaires rather than laborers, which held more seats in the National Assembly than any party except the Communists-were roundly beaten by a public dissatisfied with all the old parties...