Social Democratic Parties Rejected by Europe's Voters
By NICK CHRIST United Press International
LONDON (UPI)—Post-war Europe has not been kind to socialism.
In one election after another, the voters have been dealing socialist parties defeat after defeat. $ \textcircled{4} $
In fact, 'a swing to the center and right has been the most significant political development since the end of World War II in most democratic countries in Europe.
The latest example was Britain, where the Conservative Party government won an unprecedented third term with a 100-seat majority.
In West Germany, where economic miracles followed defeat and ruin, the socialists have been outclassed, outmaneuvered and roundly defeated.
Socialism has been practically eliminated in France. In Italy, the electorate has moved steadily toward the right from socialist-communist dominance.
Elsewhere in Europe, the socialists have had to be content with rag- and bobtail coalitions of compromise that would have shamed their political forefathers.
Only in Sweden and Norway have the so-called Social Democratic parties held their own in the welfare state.
In Austria, a Roman Catholic-Socialist coalition has ruled since the war with the pendulum swinging slightly but regularly from right to left.
In Holland, there is an uneasy joining of the Catholic and Labor parties. In Denmark, the socialists still make up the biggest single party but their majority has not enabled them to stay in office all the time.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -(UPI) -- Sixty high school and college educators from Missouri and Kansas opened a three-day conference on alcoholism today at the KU Medical Center.
Dr. William G. Hollister, a mental health consultant in education at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md., told conference delegates that "education for better mental health is an essential part of alcohol education."
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A noted author and lecturer from Cornell University will speak on "Social Change in Latin America" at 4 p.m. today in Fraser Theater.
Dr. J. Mayone Stycos' lecture is open to the public and is sponsored jointly by the KU Latin America Area Committee and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
All this does not mean that socialism has gone down for the final count in Europe.
are faced with an oral examination, to be given from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday at Strong Auditorium. They will present seven-minute argumentative problem-solution speeches before a committee of judges.
were powers to be reckoned with. In almost all European countries, they were the leading party. But not any more.
In some countries, the Communist Party has either swallowed the socialists, taken over as the dominant partner in a twosome or driven the socialists into a coalition with the right.
In the period immediately following World War II, the socialists reckoned that the evils they saw had to be remedied by drastic changes in the economic order.
Why has socialism been rejected by European voters?
But they missed the trend. Europe was soon enjoying a wave of prosperity, and Europeans were in no mood to approve radical economic and social reforms.
As prosperity increased, the voters became still more alienated from socialist thinking.
Cheryl A. Payer, El Dorado freshman; Nancy J. Cain, Lawrence junior; Helen L. Hull, Woodston senior; William B. Whitney, Bartlesville, Okla., freshman; Phillip Higginbottom, Winfield sophomore
Twenty-eight students took the written examination. The nine who passed are:
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Only behind the Iron Curtain, under the heavy hand of the Kremlin, has socialism been "flourishing."
The socialists themselves have had to conform to the trend. Britain's Labor Party, for example, has gradually whittled down its stand on nationalization. West German socialists threw nationalization over-board years ago.
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To invigorate their parties and get into line with the electorate, the socialists have had to face the fact that they must embrace the existing economic and social orders of their countries—not disrupt them.
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LINWOOD, Kan. — (UPI) — A 30-year-old farmer, Keith Johnson, died yesterday when his tractor overturned on him in a field near this eastern Kansas town. Johnson was pinned beneath the vehicle and died instantly.
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