Word: anti-british
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...month ago the anti-British riots were led by the extremist National Front. Frontist Chief Dr. Mohammed Mossadeq now seemed ready for moderation: he spoke of Premier Ala as his "friend of 30 years." But the Communists had no intention of letting calm and conciliation reign. In Teheran, they called themselves the National Association for Fighting the A.I.O.C., rallied in the capital's Majlis Square in defiance of police orders. Young men wearing lapel buttons decorated with Picasso's dove and the word "peace" led a crowd of 7,000 in clenched-fist salutes, in shouts...
...Loophole for Hope. The assassination of Razmara and fanatic threats of other killings would not have had so spectacular an effect on the Majlis if anti-British feeling had not been smoldering for years in Iran. It began to flare two years ago when Sir William Fraser, board chairman of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (which has a concession for all oil production in southern Iran), offered to double the royalties paid to the Iranian government...
...such in Britain. Ordinarily he avoids political predictions, sticks to interpreting what has happened, and, in doing so, usually leans toward the Administration line. But his shrewd wit can often knock an overblown issue down to its true perspective. When other correspondents wrote of a 'Rising tide" of anti-British sentiment in 1949, Cooke observed: "Senator Kem of Missouri . . . has never constituted a rising tide...
...British officer in India, who roams around as an Indian boy "because they send white boys to school." As the helper of a traveling Lama, Kim becomes involved in the Great Game: Injuh. On the other team in the Great Game are the Russians, who sneak around fomenting anti-British revolts. Kim and his buddy, Errol Flynn, manage to rack up quite a few points for our side; Kim by spying and carrying messages, and Flynn by knifing, shooting, and rolling rocks down on people...
...former German colony as part of the Union of South Africa. The Germans had swung the election-all six House of Assembly seats, 16 of 18 local legislative assembly seats. Their victory in South-West Africa gave a clear majority in South Africa's Parliament to the anti-British, pro-Boer, white-supremacy government of Prime Minister Daniel Malan...