Word: anti-british
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Sadat's revolutionary course was interrupted by World War II. Fanatically anti-British, the young officer plotted with the Germans. When he was caught, he was cashiered from the army and spent more than two years in prison for spying. While there he learned to read and speak English and German and read French and Persian. After the war, Nasser helped him get his commission back...
Core of Passion. Under its suavely British surface, Sleuth contains some bitterly anti-British sentiments. The celebrated games-playing vocabulary of the Englishwith terms like fair play and a sporting chanceis cant in Shaffer's view. It masks some bloody-minded bigotry and is no sounder a guide to the British national character than the ritualized tea ceremony is to that of the Japanese. Wyke is very pukka. Tindle is half Italian with a half-Jewish father. Wyke can be loftily amusing about this ("Some of my best friends are half-Jews...
...President had confronted Joseph Stalin at Teheran in late 1943 and later at Yalta. Sensibly enough, Burns makes no extensive effort to justify Roosevelt's misjudgment of the Soviet dictator's reasonableness. He shows the President in private meetings trying to soften up Stalin with mildly anti-British statements and, along with Churchill, helping to wrest from him a few paper concessions about free elections in postwar Poland. At Yalta, though, Burns asserts, F.D.R.'s failure was not the result of ignorance, naivete, illness or perfidy -all of which have been suggested by hostile historians...
With a degree in science, Ram joined Gandhi's anti-British Congress movement, and wound up in jail as an agitator in the early 1940s. At independence in 1947, Ram was Congress' Minister of Labor-the first of a series of Cabinet positions he has held, with one 28-month hiatus, ever since...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick: "Stubborn, slow-thinking and bellicose, with a definite anti-British bias, which rumor attributes to the fact that he is still resentful of the canings he received whilst a schoolboy at Eton...