Word: imperialist
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...neither pro-East nor pro-West," insisted Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser once again last week. The day before, with the proclaimed purpose of exterminating Western influence and "foiling imperialist plots," the Dictator of the Nile announced the "Egyptianization" of all British and French banks and insurance companies in the country. All other foreign banks and companies, including the U.S.-owned First National City Bank branch in Cairo, were given five years to Egyptianize, i.e., turn over all ownership and operation to native-born Egyptian citizens...
...slipped from their hands. Another measure was that the British, too long preoccupied with attacks on U.S. policy, were rallying around the point that the President's plan for the Middle East is a real contribution to world stability. "Everybody in Britain who is not lost in imperialist nostalgia or neutralist daydreams," keynoted London's middle-of-the-road News Chronicle, "should welcome it as a first step to better things...
...help Poland a little." In World War I they gave Poland its independence under Pilsudski, on condition that it fight Russia. Germany was defeated, but the Allies at Versailles recognized the Republic of Poland. The Bolsheviks also recognized Poland, but a couple of years later Stalin bared Soviet imperialist policy in a speech to the Polish comrades in which he insisted that they must understand "the Russian problem," and consider Russia's dominance "primordial to the entire revolutionary movement . . . because Soviet power is the basis and backbone of the world revolution...
...deny that slavery existed in Arabia. "Slaves," he snorted. "What are slaves? It is better to call them servants or stewards. They have a good life. They call their master 'Uncle.'" But he insisted that the proposal that slave ships be subject to seizure was an "imperialist device"-a typical trick of Western colonialism. Responding to the words "imperialism" and "colonialism" like fire horses to the bell, Asian and African nations lined up alongside Saudi Arabia, and were joined by the Soviet Union, always ready to have a go at the "imperialists." Sensitive to the colonial taunt...
...Egyptian demonstration. Nasser's propaganda news agency proclaimed the organization at a secret session "somewhere in Jordan," of an Arab underground stretching from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. "Particular stress was laid on the importance of destroying oilfields and pipelines and paralyzing work of all imperialist companies sucking the blood of Arab peoples." That was the clenched fist of the man with the cigarette in his other hand...