Word: anti-french
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...from Tais in the west and Chams in the south. A dozen more wars and another ruthless Chinese occupation in the early 15th century reinforced the Viets' independent spirit and burned hostility toward the Chinese into their minds for good. Before World War II, Nationalist China gave shelter to anti-French Vietnamese political refugees, but even this consideration failed to erase the enmity. In his subsequent war against the French, Ho Chi Minh was offered the support of Mao Tse-tung's advancing Communist army, which might have meant quick, joint victory. Ho declined. Later, with pithy logic, he explained...
...province of Nghe An in what then was part of France's sprawling Far Eastern empire, and today is North Viet Nam. According to local myth, "a man born in Nghe An will oppose anything." His father, a magistrate, lost his post because of his links to the anti-French movement. His mother, who died when Ho was ten, once was arrested for stealing French arms for the rebels...
...state of revolt reigns in the south of France," warned Emmanuel Maffre-Bauge, president of the French Table Wine Association. "There are grapes of wrath in the Midi." Not only there. In the Mediterranean port of Sete, 30,000 irate French farmers rioted, protesting imports of Italian wine. In the Sicilian town of Marsala, schools were closed, anti-French demonstrations broke out in public squares, and local unions called for a general strike of the area's 20,000 workers. From Marseille to Perpignan near the Spanish border, French growers, meanwhile, set up roadblocks of burning tires to halt...
Some of Wynn's early acquaintances are now Arab leaders: Wynn met Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia, in 1946 when, as a 43-year-old exile in Cairo, Bourguiba brought a piece of anti-French propaganda to be published in a magazine Wynn was helping edit. He first met Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1953, when Sadat was editor-in-chief of the government-owned newspaper Al Gumhurriya...
...Khmer (native Cambodians), but they are also hard-core Communists who are irreversible servants of Hanoi. One Western military attache has still another theory. He claims that the insurgents are divided between the Khmer Rouge (the old Communists), the Khmer Rumdos (the Sihanoukists) and the Khmer Issarak (the old anti-French forces). Then there is the opinion of Sihanouk, who says that the insurgency movement is a patriotic national liberation army loyal to the exiled Prince...