Word: imperialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin taste is an Argentine film, Petróleo (Oil), now showing in Buenos Aires. A Grade B melodrama according to U. S. standards, it was hailed in Argentina as one of the best Latin films to date. Petróleo's villain is a suave Yankee imperialist (Sebastian Chiola) who turns up in Argentina, tries to do the natives out of their oil wells. Thanks to the keen eyes of an Argentine oilman's daughter (blonde, beautiful Luisita Vehil), Latin virtue triumphs over Yankee greed...
...Norman Thomas, whose right to speak for all U. S. Socialists was challenged by some of his colleagues. Politely bitter, he admitted that he preferred a British victory to a Nazi one, but bespoke his distrust of an "imperialist" Churchill. His objection to H.R. 1776 coincided with Hugh Johnson's: it gave too much power to the President...
...believing it to be a just war," had been Secretary Pollitt's policy. On the orders of Stalin, Pollitt made a complete recantation, swore allegiance to the revised British Communist Party line, which declares: "The present war is not a just, defensive war, but an unjust and imperialist war in which Britain and Germany are fighting for . . . colonies and world domination...
...height with a child.") Members of the Japanese mission smilingly pointed at the bristling shore fortifications, barbed wire and blockhouses. Oh yes, said the Dutch, with perfectly straight faces, in such unsettled times as these it was quite natural that The Netherlands Indies should be worried about the imperialist ambitions of French Indo-China...
...thin-faced, bookish Oxford graduate of 23, working in South Africa under the great liberal imperialist Lord Milner. he had absorbed Milner's vision of the democratic Empire, steadily evolving toward the greater self-government of its various units, releasing the native genius of its different people, and yet unified under the structure of English constitutional law. He saw his years of work for a peaceful, democratic Empire set back by the impact of World War I, in which his only brother was killed. As Lloyd George's secretary during the war, he had worked for the League...