Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep trouble in the U.S. Congress. "We are the last great outpost of free-enterprise capitalism." said Adlai Stevenson last week at a reciprocal-trade rally in Washington (see Foreign Relations). ''Yet here we are striving to keep alive a significant phase of free enterprise in its homeland; to keep a significant phase of capitalism functioning in the country of the capitalists; to keep competition alive among the apostles of free competition...
...disruptive loyalty of the more than 500,000 other Palestinian refugees living in Jordan. Already the newly created Gaza local government council calls itself the Palestine Legislative Assembly, and the map of "Arab Palestine" behind the speaker's dais shows its borders including all of their onetime homeland-Israel...
...police in Djakarta rounded up Sumatrans thought to be sympathetic to the rebels, threatened prosecution of anyone caught listening to rebel broadcasts. Dr. Bahder-Djohan, president of the University of Indonesia and a Sumatran, asked to be relieved of active duty in protest at the bombing of his homeland. Other Sumatrans on the faculty and in civil service were threatening a walkout that would further cripple the government, since the vigorous, active Sumatrans make up a disproportionately large percentage in the nation's intellectual fields. With the disruption of trade consequent on the seizure of Dutch property, the price...
...possible. Last week there were reports that Dutch in North Sumatra, who had hitherto not been directly threatened with expulsion, were also about to depart on their own. Most tragic were Eurasians with Dutch citizenship. Most of them, born in Indonesia of Dutch fathers, had never seen the homeland to which they were being shipped. By week's end some 9,000 Dutch had left...
...Disenchantment. What had happened? Many Middle East specialists thought that refugee disenchantment with Nasser began with the Israeli attack into the Sinai. There, before the eyes of 220,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip, their posturing champion, who was to lead the refugees back to their homeland, went down to abject defeat before the Israeli army. To every refugee came the sobering realization that no Arab leader was going to force Israel into the sea and restore them to their lands...