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Popular Front
Also with lower-case initials.
[tr. Sp. frente popular, F. front populaire in the same sense: see front n. 5 g.]
An international political alliance of Communist, radical, and Socialist elements formed in 1935 and gaining power in France (1936–38), Spain (1936), and Chile (1938–42), although in Europe it was largely ineffective after 1938. Also transf., of other radical or popular movements.
1936, etc. [see front n. 5 g]. 1936Age (Melbourne) 5 May 11/7 The crowds last week were predominantly hostile to the Popular Front. 1937‘G. Orwell’ in New English Weekly 29 July 308/1 The worker and the bourgeois,..are fighting side by side. This uneasy alliance is known as the Popular Front. 1940H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood iv. iii. 380 The idea seems to be to make it the working credo of one world-wide popular front. 1942E. Paul Narrow St. xxxi. 280 The Popular Front election, April 16 to 21, 1936, was the last held in France, as the Popular Front election in February of that same year was the last held in Spain. 1958Spectator 6 June 721/1 A Popular Front drifting into Communism. 1960C. Day Lewis Buried Day x. 219 The Spanish war began: the Popular Front was formed ‘against fascism and war’. In Cheltenham the Party group sought to engage the local Labour Party in popular-front activities. 1963Listener 14 Mar. 450/1 He [sc. Khrushchev] looks forward to the appearance of strong Popular Front movements, similar to those in the late nineteen-thirties. 1966K. Martin Father Figures x. 205 Was it true that a Popular Front was the only hope of salvation? 1970Guardian 25 Feb. 1/2 The ‘hardline’ guerrilla groups are led by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. 1971I. Deutscher Marxism in our Time (1972) 291 The Popular Front was Stalinism's reaction against its own ultraleft follies through which it had smoothed Hitler's road to power. 1976S. Hynes Auden Generation vii. 210 At the Albert Hall in February 1937..Harry Pollitt..spoke in support of the Spanish Loyalists and the Popular Front.
Hence Popular Fronter, one who supports the Popular Front; Popular Fronting, activity associated with the Popular Front; Popular Frontism, the principles or policies maintained by the Popular Front.
1938Nation (N.Y.) 14 May 555/1 He [sc. Philip F. La Follette] wants no more to be tied to trade unionism, as the British progressives are, than he wants to be tied to popular frontism, as the French progressives are. 1940Economist 13 July 36/1 The Russians were liquidating Popular Frontism at home. 1941‘G. Orwell’ in Partisan Rev. Mar.–Apr. 110 It was extremely amusing to watch the behaviour of orthodox Popular Front-ers, who were exclaiming dolefully ‘It's going to be another Munich.’ 1957New Republican 7 Jan. 14/2 What kind of liberals will you find in the average large university? A handful of ADA people, most of them far from firebrands; perhaps one liberal of the sort who feels a nostalgic attachment to Popular Frontism. 1969M. Steed in Henig & Pinder European Pol. Parties 157 There has been no suggestion that any formal links should be created between the fgds and the Communist Party... Whilst the popular fronting of 1966–68 was happily accepted by both sides.., it broke up in May 1969, when rival presidential candidates were chosen. |