Word: anti-british
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...capacity for making great nations march together more truly united than ever before." Elsewhere in Britain, however, Dwight D. Eisenhower and his countrymen were having an unusually rough time of it. The stately Times feared "a Britain united in anti-Americanism-and there is a growing danger of this . . ." The less stately Sunday Times talked of "the present rigorously anti-British policies of President Eisenhower," and added: "A belief is spreading that American policy is controlled by the oil lobby." The Daily Mail's cartoonist depicted Ike skulking away from a wall upon which he had scrawled BRITISH...
Going back to Africa, Zik started the West African Pilot, filled it with rejuvenation ads, social notes and inflammatory anti-British editorials. It was an instant success. Today Zik owns five daily news papers in southern Nigeria...
...Kyagi-"The Big Tiger." (The nickname, according to a wifely indiscretion, derives not only from the fact that he was born on Monday, "the day of the tiger," but also from "his temper.") A colleague of U Nu since the '30s, when both were leaders in the anti-British activities of Rangoon University students, U Ba Swe narrowly escaped execution during World War II when the Japanese discovered that he had been using his position as chief of their puppet "civil defense unit" in Rangoon to cover up his activities as a leader of Burma's anti-Japanese...
...Eden says nothing publicly, the government's tough line on Cyprus-the airborne dispatch of two battalions of paratroopers, the defiance of world opinion in exiling Archbishop Makarios-looks beyond Cyprus itself. Britain wants to be ready to act swiftly in the Middle East. It fears a new anti-British outbreak in Jordan, and is ready to fly in paratroopers to help young King Hussein put it down. For if Britain loses its hold in Jordan, it has jeopardized its control of the vital Iraq oilfields next door...
Athens, thousands of Greeks surged through Constitution Square, bearing aloft Greek flags and shouting anti-British slogans. The entire Athens police force (3,000 men) could not prevent angry Greeks from smashing windows and tearing down signs from British buildings or ripping the tires of the British-owned municipal trolleys...