Word: afro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next year and a half, somewhere in the world national teams were playing for the privilege of going to Sweden. There were 53 entrants at the start of the competition and, in some sections, politics eliminated almost as many as defeats did on the playing field. The Afro-Asian section collapsed early, in angry disarray. Nationalist China withdrew rather than play Indonesia, which had defeated Red China. Turkey pulled out, claiming it should have been classed as European, not Afro-Asian. Neither Egypt nor Sudan would play Israel, which finally became the section champ by political default, without playing...
...dressed in slightly rumpled grey suit, Jumblatt himself is a somewhat intellectual mountaineer who studied in Paris, served as a Socialist Deputy and minister in Beirut, took up Gandhian philosophy after a visit to India in 1951, and last year walked out in disgust from Nasser's Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in Cairo on realizing that it was Communist-run. Chamoun's policies, he said, had caused 'the most reactionary as well as the most progressive forces' to band together in united opposition. 'We have never known such corruption. I myself lost...
...chorus of disapproval that portrays the U.S. as a bastion of imperialism erupted after World War II. It has been assiduously fostered by the propaganda mills of Russia, the greatest postwar imperialist of them all. Yet since World War II, 20 Afro-Asian ex-colonies, inhabited by more than 700 million people, have achieved independence, and more than half of them owe their liberation, at least in part, to the U.S. Items...
Despite such a record, the U.S. earned small thanks in Afro-Asian countries. Why does it find itself portrayed, by such disparate men as Nasser and Nehru, as a covert aider and abettor of imperialism? Diehard Colonel Blimps-British, French and American-retort that such "ingratitude" simply proves the folly of "appeasing" the Afro-Asian world. The real answers are more complicated...
Such a policy will earn few paeans of gratitude, will expose the U.S. to an incessant and painful barrage of criticism from both Europe and Afro-Asian countries. But in the long sweep of history, it may be the best hope of building a world order based on freedom and justice...