Word: imperialist
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Aside from an automatic attack on the "brutish imperialist beasts" of the U.S. Senate, Castro displayed uncharacteristic restraint. He announced that Cuba would "soon" become a one-party state (which it is in practice), but added that "true socialism" could not be achieved for a few years. He said that he had no intention of halting the flood of exiles ("those worms and parasites") leaving the new socialism, but held out a carrot to what remains of Cuba's middle class by promising small businessmen that the change would be gradual, even voluntary. "A socialist society is not reached...
...broke off the talks, the F.L.N. has increased its prestige enormously and won new popularity among Algerian Moslems. Bourguiba, ambitious to lead a united Mahgreb of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, presumably felt the need to demonstrate to the F.L.N. and to the Arab world generally that he is no "imperialist lackey," but can be as anticolonialist and as pan-Arab as anyone. Furthermore, Bourguiba's earnest and devoted friendship seemed to have gotten him nowhere with France, while the F.L.N.'s intransigeance promised to succeed brilliantly...
...Death to the imperialist!" shouted Iraq's General Abdul Karim Kassem. "Return Kuwait to its homeland...
...planes." Hopping into his bulletproof Russian Zim limousine, Kassem made a jovial, half-hour appearance at U.S. Ambassador John Jernegan's Independence Day reception, where he was escorted inside by ten U.S. marines and ten of his own Czech-armed bodyguards. Seemingly oblivious of his scathing attacks on "imperialist" Britain, Kassem deadpanned: "Our relations with Britain are stronger than before our revolution, being based on mutual interest. I like the British...
Most Arab governments were still annoyed that Kassem had brought on "imperialist" intervention. Nasser allowed a British aircraft carrier and five other warships to pass through the Suez Canal en route to Kuwait without a word of protest, but finally decided he disliked the British more than Kassem. "Kassem is only a bad cold, but British imperialism is a cancer," wrote Nasser's favorite journalist. The U.A.R. forthwith sponsored a Security Council resolution urging an immediate British withdrawal from Kuwait. With support only from Russia and Ceylon, the resolution was defeated...