Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the old Socialist policies have long since outlived their usefulness, and such principles as nationalization are passing from the Labourite campaign vocabulary. Unfortunately, however, the Labour Party is committed to renationalizing steel and road haulage, even though this policy is now a recognized liability. On this, as on many issues, there is a sharp division between the doctrinaire socialists and the moderates. As Sir Winston Churchill, again a candidate for Parliament, observed recently, "Some of them regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk...
Best measure of able Premier Kishi's growing strength lay in the confusion displayed by Japan's opposition Socialist Party, which flirts with Communism, seeks to promote Japanese ties with Red China, and hotly opposes Kishi's efforts to refurbish Japan's mutual defense pact with the U.S. Buffeted by three crushing local and national election defeats in the past 16 months, the Socialists gathered last week under huge red flags in Tokyo's Nine Steps Hall, to debate the reasons for their fading popularity and to patch up party squabbles. But after five days...
Trouble began when left-wing leaders of Sohyo, the General Council of Japanese Labor Unions, tried to pin the blame for the party losses on a right-wing faction accused of criticizing the Socialist campaign against the U.S. security treaty and of "opposing the description of the Socialist Party as a class party." The right-wingers, led by veteran 68-year-old Suehiro Nishio, who has the support of more than a third of the Socialist members of the lower house of the Diet, promptly walked out of the hall, agreed to return only on condition that the left wing...
...major Socialist split had been averted, but the discord, which was there for all to see, would make it easier for Kishi to sell the public on his proposed new pact with the U.S.; in fact, according to the pollsters, a surprising 63% of the people were now in favor of his treaty proposals...
Britain's 'Erb (for Herbert) Morrison, 71, could "not sleep for worrying," finally decided not to stand for Parliament after 27 years in the House of Commons. But Socialist Morrison would not have to leave Westminster after all. As Parliament dissolved, Queen Elizabeth's dissolution honors list awarded a lifetime peerage to the London bobby's son who became wartime Home Secretary, later Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in the postwar Labor government. The new lord had no idea what new name he would choose. "I'll still be the same Herbie Morrison...