Word: anticolonialist
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...would fight on, "even if the whole world turns against us." Volunteers from "friendly countries" were welcome, said Bourguiba, including those offered by Egypt's Nasser, his old archenemy. His deputy, Bahi Ladgham, grimly summoned U.S. Ambassador Walter Walmsley and declared: "Now is your chance to prove how anticolonialist...
...increased its prestige enormously and won new popularity among Algerian Moslems. Bourguiba, ambitious to lead a united Mahgreb of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, presumably felt the need to demonstrate to the F.L.N. and to the Arab world generally that he is no "imperialist lackey," but can be as anticolonialist and as pan-Arab as anyone. Furthermore, Bourguiba's earnest and devoted friendship seemed to have gotten him nowhere with France, while the F.L.N.'s intransigeance promised to succeed brilliantly...
...Washington, and in retaliation ordered seven U.S. Navy weather planes to leave Luanda immediately. The U.S. could only say in answer that in time to come, Portugal and other U.S. allies in Europe might be grateful that they had an ally who had established its good faith with the anticolonialist nations of Africa and Asia...
Success Unpredictable. Chief aspirant to Lumumba's mantle is Antoine Gizenga, 39, a onetime schoolteacher and an all-out proCommunist. Gizenga founded a small anticolonialist party in a Léopoldville saloon two years ago, later flitted off to Prague's Institute for African Studies. His party won 13 Parliament seats in last year's election. He tossed them to Lumumba, and Lumumba made him Vice Premier. Since shortly after his boss's arrest last December, Gizenga has run the show from the Eastern province river capital of Stanleyville (and to one recent visitor, he remarked...
...past, the Communists dealt with such countries only through the apparatus of subversion-organizing cells, fomenting strikes, infiltrating fronts, subverting governments. But now new governments are taking power in these places, which are primarily anticolonialist. They look about in the spirit of the Arab proverb: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend...