Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blundell has started the United Country Party, the first significant step toward organized political thought in colonial Kenya. Opposing him is an extremist group called the Federal Independence Party. So far, most white Kenyans refuse to join either party, preferring to keep their political opinions to themselves. Blundell counts on events to swing his way before Kenya's first two-party elections in 1956. "We have our hotheads," he says. "But the solid mass of people must have learned some lesson from the Mau Mau. They will be with us, when the time comes...
...Knowland, urged a blockade of the Chinese mainland and suggested even more drastic moves. But the President rejected the blockade proposal and promised that the United states would not be "goaded into unwise actions." His appeal to the United Nations to seek the prisoners' release was a rebuff to extremist elements in the United States and a much-needed assurance to American allies that this country still intends to support the world organization actively...
...conflicting definitions of co-existence rattle about the Congressional chambers, the debate over the desirable direction to steer American foreign policy continues unsettled. Defiantly arguing against the Administration are extremists like Senator Knowland who urge that violent action against the Soviets is America's only chance for survival. The foreign policy split is particularly aggravated by the continual juggling of the co-existence idea. Whereas the Soviets' use of the word has given it the unsavory flavor of "appeasement," Knowland has pushed further by charging that co-existence will allow Russia to swallow the free world. Unfortunately, the extremist attitude...
...Only Negotiation . . ." French officials blamed the outbreak on three sinister influences acting in concert: 1) Tunisian fellaghas (bandits), hard-pressed in their own country, who had crossed the Algerian border; 2) the inflammatory Cairo radio; 3) the extremist nationalist Algerian movement known as the MTLD (Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties). Leader of the MTLD is Ahmed Messali Hadj, now in exile at Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, but reported in contact with Algerian underground leaders, and suspected of being the hand that set off last week's synchronized violence...
...instrument to find and follow that way, "not appealing to the radicals of the left or the right." His warning: "If the needs of this country are not met by middle-of-the-road progressivism, the problems won't be met, and the time will come when only extremist solutions are possible...