Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden, a Briton as archaic, absurd and appealing as a guardsman's busby...
Roosevelt: "I think he had been brought up to think of us as a colonial imperialist power. I don't think he really understood European politics much. I don't think any American did, much...
...book-loving Soviet public, reported Moscow radio proudly, had gobbled up every copy of a new edition of the works of Mark Twain. Included in the twelve-volume set, which will be published over the next three years: unnamed, unspecified "anti-imperialist pamphlets," not found, claimed the broadcast, in the decadent, bourgeois editions published by Twain's countrymen...
...Education for education's sake" is now scorned in China as an imperialist luxury. At Loyang, in Honan province, twelve primary schools recently heeded the Central Committee's directive that "the future direction is for schools to run factories and farms, and for factories and agricultural cooperatives to establish schools." They banded together, built the "Red Scarf" steel and iron factory, now claim production of 40 tons of metal daily. To ask that summer vacations be spent vacationing is "a decadent viewpoint ... It should be known that after spending a busy period of time in study, taking...
...soon circulating through the Middle East that Russian promises had succeeded in lining up the votes of eight of the twelve attending archbishops-who are responsible for electing one of three candidates nominated by a council of religious and lay delegates. The Communists also circulated reports of an American imperialist plot to take over the patriarchate with Archbishop Antony Bashir of New York (a U.S. citizen born in Lebanon). The Reds played their final cards two days before the election, when a representative of the Patriarch of Moscow donated some $8,000 to "victims of the Lebanese revolution...