Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little specter set about haunting Britain last week.* One year after its birth, the Common Wealth Party issued a manifesto: "An age is ending. A whole way of life is breaking down and is reaching its end. If the evidence before your own eyes does not convince you that this is true, no words of ours are likely to persuade you. The future struggles to be born...
This maiden manifesto drew a sharp reply last week from able Paul White, news chief of CBS's newscasting organization. He reminded the pundits of a few differences between newspapers and the radio. The number of newspapers which can be published is limited only by the will to enterprise, but the number of radio stations is limited by the frequencies available, which are scarce. That means, said White, that radio is less able to guarantee an adequate hearing to people whose opinions differ from those of the pundits. White continued...
Since Marx and Engels, in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, proclaimed that "a spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism," Marxists had always, in theory, worked for world revolution. The First International had been broken after the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871; the Second (Socialist) International had been irreparably weakened by World War I; but neither had committed suicide. And the Third International was a creation of modern Russia's founder, Stalin's master, Nikolai Lenin. Summoned by that greatest of revolutionaries, 51 delegates from 30 countries, including the U.S., met in Moscow in March...
...first discernible origin in 1940, when philanthropic, wildly socialistic, 36-year-old Sir Richard launched his Forward March Movement with the slogan: "Liberty, Equality, and Material Well Being." In early 1941, Author J. B. Priestley and a group of other intellectuals prodded the Churchill Government with a manifesto demanding a definition of Britain's war and peace aims, a more positive social consciousness...
Chile greeted him at Santiago's Los Cerillos airport with the Chilean Air Force band, playing The Star-Spangled Banner. All parties, from Conservative to Communist, signed a joint manifesto urging popular acclaim for Wallace. The masses' answer: 25,000 Chileans cheered him in front of his residence in Santiago. Next day he addressed the Chilean Congress, warmly patted President Juan Antonio Ríos and Chile's Popular Front: ". . . Now the great masses [of Chile] advance toward a fuller liberty. Its people are on a revolutionary march to affirm this land as one of dignity...