Word: anti-british
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...longtime (1945-50, 1955-67) Member of Parliament, a World War I émigré from the U.S. who saw himself as the Labor Party's socialist conscience and was regarded by many others as a crypto-Communist, treating the House of Commons to such rabidly proSoviet, anti-American, anti-British sentiments (including attacks on Labor Leaders Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell) that in 1949 and in 1961 he was suspended from the party; of leukemia; in London...
Rather than cooperate with the U.N.'s fact finders, both extremist groups decided to greet them by calling a general strike and setting off a fresh wave of anti-British rioting. From Cairo, F.L.O.S.Y. Boss Abdul Qawee Mac-kawee smirkingly denied that he had ordered his commandos to kill five Brit ish soldiers a day during the U.N. mission's stay: "I wouldn't want to restrict our people. Perhaps they can kill more than that." Aden's bustling shops were boarded up, its streets patrolled by British armored cars, and its harbor emptied of ships...
Died. François C. Erasmus, 70, South African politician, one of his country's fiercest supporters of anti-British, white-supremacist doctrines, who in 1952, as Minister of Defense, purged most of the military's World War II leaders because they had fought in "Britain's war," and in 1960, as Minister of Justice, was largely responsible for the ill-famed Sharpeville massacre of 72 Africans protesting the apartheid passbook laws; of a heart attack; in Bredasdorp, South Africa...
...Chavan has been impeccably loyal to Indira, but he, too, has the qualifications of a Prime Minister: service as an anti-British guerrilla in his teens, two jail terms during the independence struggle, experience as a former chief minister of the highly industrialized state of Maharashtra, which includes Bombay, and an excellent record as a Cabinet minister. He was originally summoned to New Delhi and given the Defense post in 1962 by Jawaharlal Nehru, who needed a replacement for Leftist Krishna Menon in the dark days after Red China's attack. Chavan rammed through an effective rebuilding...
...cinemas, and stoning the offices and homes of government officials. Last week in the northern city of Jammu, a mob of 1,000 students tossed bricks at police for hours until retaliatory gunfire killed three students. In some areas, student rioting has already exceeded in damage and ferocity the anti-British demonstrations that preceded independence...