Word: diehardism
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...city alike, was Malayan nationhood. He saw no way of reconciling the 2,000,000 industrious Chinese (who dominate the economy) with the 2,700,000 easygoing Malays (who dominate the politics), except in a sense of common patriotism. To break down the color bar, Templer forced the diehard British to open their posh clubs to men of all races. To give the Chinese a stake in the country, he pressed for (and got) common citizenship, entitling the Chinese to vote. The Malays, appalled, called Templer pro-Chinese, but he turned round and slapped on a tax that...
...sponsorship of Stanley Baldwin, Butler was promoted to Under Secretary. When Hoare fell ill during debate, Rab took his place at the dispatch box. He knew India, and he knew his bill. Attacked from the left for going too slowly, abused from the right by Winston Churchill and the diehard imperialists for going too far, Rab skillfully stood his ground, pushed the bill through. He was then...
...ridden Kenya, Michael Blundell, Parliamentary Leader of the white settlers, shocked his diehard followers by summoning a conference of Africans, Indians and Britons to blueprint a new Kenya government, "to include all races...
...Godfrey Huggins' Federal Party took its stand on Cecil Rhodes's dictum, "Equal rights for all civilized men." Hugginsmen believe that a color bar is still necessary in primitive Africa, but gradually they hope to remove it, as the Negroes "come of age." Opposing Huggins are the diehard Confederates. Many of Northern Rhodesia's white copper miners are Boer immigrants who support the segregation policies of South Africa's Daniel Malan. Only 64,000 whites-and 444 Africans -voted last week. They decided for the Federalists, and "racial partnership," by better than 4 to 1 vote...
Paris greeted the new plan with cheers, predicted early approval by city officials. A few diehard conservatives still grumbled, but most people liked the clean modernism and the low bow to Paris' past. Wrote Critic Andre Siegfried in Le Figaro: "That which thinking Parisians demand is that their city, without refusing to be of its own century, not renounce [its right to] remain Paris. Delicate problem. Delicate reconciliation." Echoed the left-wing Combat: "Very seductive . . . They have succeeded perfectly...