Word: anti-british
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...Violently racist, it demanded laws to protect the unskilled and often illiterate Afrikaner laborers against the "indignity" of working alongside blacks, hammered home the theme that Strijdom was the only man who could save South Africa from the swart gevaar (black peril). So anti-British was the paper that it cheered Hitler and protested South Africa's participation in World War II. The only mention it made of the visit of King George VI in 1947 was a note warning its readers to avoid certain Johannesburg streets, which would be jammed with traffic because "some foreign visitors" were...
...Ambassador to Peru and the Vatican, he has a burning desire to join Spain to the rest of Europe. He works closely with U.S. Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke, but his relations with the British are somewhat strained: he is determined to win back Gibraltar, once even wrote a violently anti-British book entitled Spain's Claim...
...limits of honorable conduct in public office" that Boyd has now rushed out his findings in a separate monograph. He does not remotely suggest that Hamilton was in any sense a British agent. He does allege that Hamilton was so passionately opposed to what seemed to him the anti-British bias of his own Government that he conspired with a British agent to change it, confiding to him the deliberations of the U.S. Cabinet itself and engaging in a "calculated and continuing use of deception...
Buddhists also threatened anti-government and anti-British demonstrations. Buddhist propaganda condemned British Ambassador Gordon Etherington-Smith and demanded his recall. Etherington-Smith recently spoke praising Huong...
Fulfillment. Foot survived to chart (on camel back) the Wadi Araba Desert between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was blown out of a staff car on his way to demand the surrender of a Vichy French garrison in Syria, got stabbed in the back by an anti-British terrorist in Nigeria. He helped Nigerian politicians draft their constitution, and headed Jamaica's march to stability and independence. As for his last and most frustrating assignment, he says wryly that "anyone who understood Cyprus had been misinformed." Whatever the fate of that unhappy nation, Sir Hugh looks back...