The center-Gaullist parties got only 36% of the vote while the combined left of the Socialists and Communists got about 40%.
SHANGHAI — On Aug. 2, 1949, with the Communists about to seize power in Beijing, the United States recalled its ambassador to China, John Leighton Stuart, a respected missionary, educator and diplomat.
The SNP's attitude to Labour is the same as Lenin's advice to Communists about whether to support the Labour party in the 1920s – to support it the way the rope supports the hanging man.
A tough-talking, 69-year-old former Navy jet pilot who claims he slipped into Moscow's Red Square in 1960 to lecture the Communists about free enterprise, Trenham runs a small investment firm near Pasadena, Calif.
He tells us about his youth as a Communist activist, about his factory work as a printer, and about the death of his brother.
Moscow, Gehl's first foray into the former Communist bloc, came about after a presentation last year in Montreal.
WHEN news of the catastrophe broke, it was because scientists in free, neighbouring countries had detected what the Communist authorities knew about, but had tried to conceal.
Linda exudes sincerity as she stands in Hyde Park in a fur coat giving a Communist speech about workers.
When technocratic Communists took control of China in the late 1970s, they allowed temples, churches and mosques to reopen after decades of forced closures, but Communist suspicion about religion persisted.
But what was it that Philby thought he had to do while all he believed in as a lifelong Communist was about to come crashing down?
