Word: imperialist
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...painful, but we must face the cruel facts of life. It is disturbing to me that many people in our country who call themselves liberals are stone silent about the Soviet concentration camps. They never find the time to utter a word of condemnation against the Communist imperialist destruction of the national independence and democratic rights of hundreds of millions of people in Europe and Asia...
...intriguing fact that might give Ehrenburg trouble all over again: the book's U.S. publisher is Chicago's Henry Regnery, a man of marked anti-Soviet opinions-exactly the sort Ehrenburg means when he talks about imperialist hyenas. What is more, Regnery commissioned Fellow Hyena Russell Kirk (The Conservative Mind) to explain in an accompanying essay why he has published the dreadful bit of work. Reason: this book shows perfectly that life itself "in the Revolutionary Utopia ... has faded away to this boredom with the present and this indifference to the future...
...London. India-born Amery delivered the oratorical coup de grâce to Chamberlain in 1940 when he quoted in the House of Commons from Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing ... In the name of God, go!" A lifelong imperialist, he lived to see his son John convicted and hanged for high treason in 1945 for broadcasting Nazi propaganda; his other son, Julian, Conservative M.P. since 1950, parachuted into occupied Albania in World War II, worked with partisans as a liaison officer...
...Youssef ignored the French paragraph, appealed instead for the solidarity of Islam. The French were furious. To-teach the Sultan a lesson, they appointed an imperious and impetuous new Resident General : Alphonse Juin, topflight field soldier and veteran of long years of service in North Africa. An old-fashioned imperialist, Marshal Juin had his own Moroccan to set up against Ben Youssef: El Glaoui...
...Moulay Arafa's removal and Ben Youssef's return. Terrorist tracts, bearing the black crescent sign of the Arab underground, quickly made plain what this might mean. In the sacred name of Allah, the tracts urged all Moroccans to "avenge our dead heroes cut down by Imperialist French bullets...