Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviets, Red Chinese and Cubans reacted with howls about imperialist aggression. In a shrill May Day speech, Castro called the U.S. landing "one of the most criminal and humiliating actions of this century." The comment from the rest of Latin America was surprisingly mild. Few of the expected mobs materialized to hurl rocks at U.S. embassies. Chile's President Eduardo Frei and Venezuela's Raúl Leoni issued public statements deploring the U.S. landings. But privately, many Latin American statesmen admitted the necessity for quick U.S. action. Some even went on record about it. Mexico...
...began to have strange illusions," confessed a Chinese bacteriologist in Peking's party newspaper Kuang-ming Jih-pao, "about a world filled with friendly love." Horrors! It wasn't imperialist propaganda he'd been listening to, but the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, newly blacklisted by the Chinese Communists because they "paralyze one's revolutionary fighting will...
Escape? For four months, the three men, tightly bound, were paraded through villages and hamlets as living displays of "captured imperialist aggressors." On Dec. 26, after signing statements supporting the Viet Cong, Grainger's two companions were released. They reported that the American was still in captivity, chained and guarded in a remote cave. He was in good health, they said; the Viet Cong had fed them well and had scrupulously deducted the cost of their food from the money taken from them...
Sought Bridge. Perhaps the first irony was that private Russian initiative developed Alaska for the imperialist Czars. In 1741, when Russia sent two ships east from the Kamchatka peninsula in Siberia, it was interested mainly in settling a debate over the existence of a land link between Asia and America...
Ironically, the fading of the "imperialist" enemy, a menace that the Communists try so hard to keep alive, aggravates the crisis. Making common cause against colonial masters often gave Asian countries-and groups within countries-a solidarity they are now losing. But there are some encouraging signs. Interracial schooling, notably in Thailand and Malaysia, is binding young overseas Chinese closer to their host nations. Officers and men of different races serve happily together in units of the Indian and Malaysian armed forces, where the military-command structure replaces communal loyalties. Above all, as industrialization spreads in Asia, traditional cleavages, based...