Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harold Wilson, new leader of Britain's Labor Party, is "an opportunist, and not a doctrinaire socialist at all, John E. Rodman, assistant professor of Government, told the CRIMSON yesterday...
...Wilson is better known than Brown, and he's enough of an opportunist to unite the party," Rodman said. "If an election comes soon, the Labor Party will be stronger with Wilson than it would have been with Brown...
...Trade in Clem ent Attlee's Cabinet, pipe-puffing Yorkshireman Wilson has had more administrative experience than any of his rivals, is the party's foreign policy specialist. Despite his brilliance and charm, Wilson's foes, who call him "Little Harold," regard him as a slippery opportunist who backs only winning causes-though he miscalculated in 1960 when he attempted to grab the leadership while Gaitskell was fighting for his political life against the party's powerful anti-NATO bloc...
...must be said that since the time of Trotskyism no other opportunist trend has ever resorted to such a monstrous method, which completely distorts truth. It hides its capitulatory essence behind "ultrarevolutionary" slogans, playing on the feelings of the masses. It would be extremely harmful to try to fit revolutionary processes in this extremely varied world into ready molds, as the dogmatists are trying to do. Far from advancing the cause of world revolution, they are throttling...
Kennedy went to see Jango Goulart and came out looking very happy. Thus ended Brazil's independent foreign policy.'' It was hardly that simple. Goulart, a wealthy rancher and political opportunist who climbed to power with the support of labor and the far left, still needs the left's support-at least until a plebiscite next month determines whether he will regain the presidential powers denied him by the distrustful military when he assumed the presidency in September 1961. In public. Goulart takes care not to antagonize the left by seeming to knuckle under...