Word: anticolonialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting, attended by Tito, Indonesia's Sukarno, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, at Belgrade in 1961, the so-called nonaligned movement has usually espoused a form of neutrality with a distinctly leftist flavor. The rhetoric has sputtered with buzz words like "anticolonialist" and "progressive." But official pronouncements increasingly have also been careful to try to keep both superpowers at haughty arm's length with even-handed warnings against Soviet "manipulation" as well as U.S. "imperialism...
...Died. V.K. Krishna Menon, 77, virulently anti-Western former Indian Defense Minister and delegate to the United Nations; of an apparent heart attack; in New Delhi. Son of a wealthy lawyer, Menon was an ascetic, acerbic, anticolonialist firebrand who lived in London and agitated against British rule in India for 28 years until independence came in 1947. His intimate friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, led to a series of high-level government posts. At the U.N. in the 1950s, Menon regularly scourged U.S. "imperialism," although he condoned Moscow's suppression of the 1956 Hungarian...
...with members of the junta, but I believe they are in agreement." However, should it begin to appear that his military bosses want him to operate on different principles, Soares suggests that he and his party might have to withdraw their support. "The position of the Socialists is radically anticolonialist. We cannot be counted on to carry out a policy contrary to our ideals...
...what stretch of your imagination could possible Chinese leadership of "an anticolonialist drive on the white minority regime in South Africa" be termed "real trouble"? Trouble for whom? Certainly it would not be trouble for the majority population of millions of suppressed black people in South Africa...