Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMECON meeting in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev let loose another tirade against the Market, while in Britain, in full-page advertisements paid for by Tory Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein blared: "I say we must not join Europe.'' Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah denounced Britain's plans to enter the Market and found himself in tune with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, usually no friend of the Commonwealth's black members...
...equally perplexed and bothered by the swingingest development in recent Western history-the fabulous growth of the Common Market. The same day as the Goodman session, in a 40-minute tirade that was really an involuntary tribute to the market's success, Khrushchev denounced the Six as an imperialist octopus. The Common Market, he declared piously, could not, of course, threaten the mighty Communist bloc, but it was designed to keep the emerging states in Africa and Asia in subservience as Europe's "agrarian appendages...
...Imperialist Product. Red China's first attempt to bite off an Indian finger came after its subjugation of Tibet, when it repudiated the so-called McMahon Line, the border arranged between British India and Tibet in 1914, and named after the head British negotiator. Running across N.E.F.A. from Bhutan to Burma, the line set the border at the watershed at the crest of the highest mountains. But the Red Chinese declared the McMahon Line an "illegal, null and void" product of "British imperialism," claimed that the actual border ran along the southern foot of the mountains...
...position is still some-what divided, however, Rudolph observed. On the one hand the United States is committed to a United Nations charter which prohibits unauthorized use of force, and on the other it would much rather see India than Russia of China emerge as the active opponents of imperialist colonialism...
...belief in a new Eastern Front was even more ludicrous. The British wished to ship a large Japanese army into Western Siberia in order to combat imaginary German forces. Not only did they blind themselves to Japanese imperialist designs on Eastern Siberia and Manchuria but failed to see that it would take years to transport an army of any size to Omsk which, once it got there, would be a thousand miles from the nearest German army...