Word: extremists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Shadow of Violence. Unable to carry the day by parliamentary means, the extremists coldly set out to create an atmosphere of near civil war, reminiscent of the May 1958 uprising that toppled the Fourth Republic. At midweek, Gaullist Lucien Neuwirth, World War II underground fighter, publicly charged that a "commando of killers" had crossed into France from Spain with orders to assassinate leading ministers, government officials, and newspaper editors. Police pooh-poohed the warning until Left-Wing Senator François Mitterrand, who supports negotiations with the F.L.N., narrowly escaped death in the heart of Paris, when unidentified machine gunners...
...danger was that France might take Abbas' words at face value. In fact, much of what he said was clearly designed to establish a bargaining position, and some of it was equally clearly intended as window dressing to make the idea of a possible cease-fire palatable to extremist anti-French forces within the rebel ranks. The essential point was that for the first time since the fighting began the rebels had tacitly agreed to abide by the verdict of a peaceful Algerian referendum...
...hour of victory last week, Lee ordained discipline for his unruly leftist party, and urged hard work on the 90,000 supporters who gathered on the grassy lawn to cheer him. Fulfilling a campaign pledge, he won release from custody of eight leaders of his party's extremist wing. On emerging from Changi prison, where they had been held since the 1956 riots, the eight signed a joint statement pledging "the attainment of party aims and objectives through constitutional process...
Many of the blacks deliberately threw their support to the ultra-racist Dominion Party in order to deny Sir Roy his magic 16. In doing so, they ignored the call of their most extremist leaders to boycott the election, and turned out 80% strong to exercise their right to vote and to show their faith in constitutional means...
...want any of this India Bwana stuff," he would cry, and he denounced the moderate Africans in the government as "quislings" who had sold out their country for "a cup of tea in a white man's house." Though always arguing against violence, he called himself "the extremist of extremists," and had a way of stirring up his people as no man had before. He boasts: "To the majority of Africans in Nyasaland, I am the Lord Mayor's Show in London...