Show R F FI I Socialism in In Europe 1 ti ft T fHE Socialist vote ev even n in our bigg biggest s H and industrial c centers is s so small m t id he vote so o negligible that jI often p ten fi forget how important these elements of discontent bulk in Europe v Barring nati nations ns like like Spain Italy HaJy Greece sand and H Hungary where one-man one dictatorship is he rule jule most of oft the countries of E Europe rope W 7 j have very important Socialist parties and in j. soine some the Communist vote is not ble able rf i I 1 In In Gre Great t Britain the Labor Socialist party parity s his his' majesty's opposition be because ause it Is the ij party in parliament after the Tories 1 t t. t in hi France Prance it made the last prime ministry i t pf f Herriot possible In Germany the Social Democrats have taken part in n th the cabinet of ev v ry ry rep republican government except the pres pres- p j ml nt one In Belgium their acknowledged leader l Ts IS s minister r fo r foreign affairs S The he bulk of the European Socialist vote is of f course found in the b big g c cities citie tie and ind in the industrial centers This was made strikingly manifest recently in the he municipal elections in Stockholm M W Somehow v one one always thinks o of the Swedes k f. f an an eminently con conservative nation naho and yet vet I not so long tong ago the late M. M Branting a So Socialist Sor So- So r ci lis was prime prim minister Somehow one ne t ks of Stockholm as a great conservative capital c pital city and arid yet the Socialists rule its municipal council In the last body the they with th Communists had 51 members to 48 rep- rep presenting the anti After fter a sharply It fought el election they recently i increased their sJ slender majority the figures figures' now flOW standing r S 52 2 f for r the Socialists and Communists against P 8 for the anti ahti t rl i Socialism can almost be taken as a S of a a country's general w well being l more mor prosperous the the- country th the busier buser nd better paid its working people are tre the theS S less ss room there bere is for the reds 5 The is obvious The United States Stites t S 4 appy y country S' S Iu Europe pe in 1 fh thee the m main maLis IS is unhappy We We have liay th the W and and its its aftermath Europe is still suffering suf suf- dP fering from it |