Word: imperialist
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...hatred for the foreigner. Its dusty streets are oppressive with the sense of suppressed violence. Cops and soldiers with planted bayonets guard hotel entrances. Armored cars bristle before public buildings and jeep-mounted recoilless 106-mm. guns glower down the broad avenues, presumably on guard against the "corruption" and "imperialist aggressors" the Baghdad radio so ceaselessly attacks. Barefoot young people rove the banks of the Tigris, singing patriotic songs and shouting: "Nasser, Nasser." Every wall and shopwindow in town bears the image of the idol of the Nile-or that of Iraq's own Revolutionary Chief Karim Kassem...
...impossible to answer for the madmen of the imperialist world," said Nikita Khrushchev in a speech broadcast by Moscow radio last week. "But at the present time it seems to me there is no cloud from which thunder might crash...
...Britain had all but conceded hegemony of the Arab world-at least during reasonably good behavior-to a man and a nation steeped in hostility to the West. The Egyptians were among those most jubilant at the 80-to-0 General Assembly vote. Headlined one Cairo newspaper: THE IMPERIALIST PLOTTERS HAVE BEEN FOILED...
...business. Newspapers trumpet wild charges, e.g., that the U.S. military advisory mission is plotting a coup. U.S. housewives on shopping trips have been heckled with shouts of "Yankee go home," and on Caracas' new Armed Forces Avenue, crude painted signs urge "death to the imperialistic Yankees." Venezuelan schoolchildren only seven and eight years old came out of one grammar school chanting memorized anti-U.S. slogans. In good-humored rebuttal, U.S. oilmen, who have kept Venezuelan oil flowing through dictatorship and revolution, are forming the SPCAID-"Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to American Imperialist Dogs...
...equipped with stacks of picture postcards showing modern developments to be seen in Egypt, and, when pressed, admit that Nasser is the author of these wonders. They stress the awakening of Arab nationalism, the need for Arab union under Nasser's general direction, and the doom of the imperialist West. Children are told they must fight for complete emancipation of the Arab people from all foreign control and political influence. The teachers file regular reports to Cairo, and villagers are further impressed with Nasser's farseeing wisdom when radio broadcasts beamed from Egypt describe their local affairs...