Word: antiforeign
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Despite the fact that the immigrants stirred up antiforeign prejudices, by 1907 the attempt to assimilate them produced the democratic melting pot theory, though years passed before textbooks preached it. National self-confidence, meanwhile, was being further boosted by America's growing role on the global scene. David Saville Muzzey's An American History, the most successful U.S. history text ever, appeared...
Faced with the growing strength of anti-American and antiforeign feelings, the U.S. and other Western embassies began a hectic and confused evacuation of families and nonessential personnel from Iran. U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan, who had been in frequent communication with the Shah, called a meeting of the American business community and "recommended" that families leave the country...
...have been modified: rule by an imperial figure still persists, for example, and so does adherence to ideological orthodoxy, whether Confucian or Communist. Ironically, the methods used to overthrow the old system are reminiscent of past methods. The Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution had their prototypes in the antiforeign Boxers of the 19th century. In Confucian times, too, crowds of villagers used to gather to hear mandatory lectures on ethics...
Things were looking up in Cairo last week as a new nightclub opened with a blare of hot music on one of ousted King Farouk's abandoned yachts. A glittering new Shepheard's Hotel, to replace the old one burned by antiforeign mobs back in 1952, was ready to open its doors again to foreign spenders. The Egyptian cost of living had momentarily ceased its steady climb; the stock market was active, and toll money from a once-again busy Suez Canal was pouring into the national treasury. A prospective purchase of $35 million worth of cotton...
...Middle East oil expert, gloomily watching this familiar performance, was convinced that it is useless to press an oil agreement on Mossadegh, because he could not keep it if one were made. Unstable old Mossadegh stays in power by being antiforeign; for him to sign an agreement would be to surrender this source of his popularity to evil old Mullah Kashani and the Tudeh Communists. The solution, says this expert, is not to make an oil agreement in hopes of bolstering Iran's government, but first to bolster Iran's government so that it might keep whatever...