Word: lurches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with nationalist aims. To Verwoerd, who edited a pro-Nazi newspaper during World War II and might have been expected to choose his historical comparisons more carefully, Macmillan's attitude smacked of Munich-like appeasement. "The West is abdicating in Africa and leaving the white man in the lurch," he complained. "It is robbing the black masses of training and all the advantages the white man brought to this dark continent. Africa will return to heathenism and the strengthening of Mohammedanism." If inexperienced African leaders of new countries flood the United Nations, Verwoerd added, the West will have...