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Liberal party
Liberal party Canadian political party. Prior to confederation in 1867, reform parties advocating greater local participation in provincial governments, free trade, and increased separation of church and state existed in Canada West, Canada East, and the Maritime Provinces. After 1867 although the ...
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Liberal party
Liberal party former British political party, the dominant political party in Great Britain for much of the period from the mid-1800s to World War I.
Origins
The Liberal party was an outgrowth of the Whig party that, after the Reform Bill of 1832 (see Reform Acts ), joined with the bul...
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Luis Somoza Debayle
Luis Somoza Debayle , 1922-67, president of Nicaragua (1957-63). The oldest son of the dictator Anastasio Somoza , he was educated in the United States. He entered congress in 1950, became acting president (1956) upon the assassination of his father, and then president (1957). He liberalized his fa...
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Federation of South Arabia
Federation of South Arabia federation, 1963-67, S Arabian peninsula, formed by the merger of the British colony of Aden with the Federation of the Emirates of the South, a British protectorate. The Federation of the Emirates of the South was formed (Feb., 1959) by the union of six emirates, sultana...
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Rafael Carrera
Rafael Carrera , 1814-65, president of Guatemala, a caudillo. He led the revolution against the anticlerical liberal government of Guatemala, and his ultimate success in 1840 helped to destroy the Central American Federation. Illiterate and of mixed blood, he received unquestioned support from the i...
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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer , 1895-1973, German philosopher and sociologist. As director (1930-58) of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, he played an important role in the development of critical theory and Western Marxism. In Eclipse of Reason (1947) and Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947, writte...
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Klement Gottwald
Klement Gottwald , 1896-1953, Czechoslovak Communist leader, b. Moravia. After World War I he helped found the Czechoslovak Communist party and served on the party's central committee from 1925. From 1928 to 1943 he was on the executive committee of the Comintern , serving as Comintern secretary fr...
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Antonio Guzmán Blanco
Antonio Guzmán Blanco , 1829-99, president of Venezuela, a caudillo who dominated the nation from 1870 to 1888. Son of the founder of the Liberal party, Guzmán Blanco was a magnetic and energetic figure with considerable diplomatic and administrative ability. He became a general in the...
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Liberal Democratic party
Liberal Democratic party (LDP), Japanese political party. It began as the conservative Liberal party, which, under Shigeru Yoshida , became the dominant political force in Japan following World War II. In 1955 the Liberals merged with the newly created Japan Democratic party. Retaining control of ...
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Władysław Gomułka
Władysław Gomułka , 1905-82, Polish Communist leader. Long a Communist, he helped establish the Polish Workers' party and was (1943-49) secretary of its central committee. After World War II, he served (1945-49) as deputy premier of Poland. A Polish nationalist, he was purged in 1949 ...
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