Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congratulated for the fair and hardheaded judgments you passed on Garry Davis' "world citizenship" movement. As you so well point out, this movement, in its efforts to be objective and above national partisanship, misrepresents the nature of our difference with Russia and, falsely, tars us with the brush of aggressiveness and imperialism with which it is obliged to tar Russia. And it's quite true that whatever may be the pure intentions of its founder and of some of its supporters, such a movement cannot but become the tool of the unnaïve and nonimpractical Communists...
...Freedom Movement," Israel's newest and potentially most dangerous party, led by Menachim Beigin, former commander of Irgun. Frankly jingoist, it demands a Jewish state including all of Palestine. Cried Beigin last week: "It is not a real peace while . . . the Arab legions stand on the Hill of the Holy Temple." His party violently denounces Ben-Gurion's peace efforts, attacks him as a seeker of power and prestige. "Have you heard?" runs one joke launched by Beigin's party: "Stalin is having delusions of grandeur. He walks up & down, beating his chest and saying...
Wolf compared the present nationalist movement in southeast Asia to similar expressions of nationalism in the European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century. What is remarkable about the Asian movement, Wolf said, is that it has all been telescoped into the last 30 years. At the turn of the century nationalist sentiment hadn't even begun to brew there...
Fairbank agreed with the analogy and pointed out that China is one generation ahead of the general nationalist movement in Asia and is already engaged in problems of economic reform. Though China is out of our hands we can still aid in working economic reform on democratic lines in southeast Asia, he pointed...
...Russian resistance movement, says Father George, is made up of all sorts of men, among whom the Christians are highly respected. Said one of the leaders: "They are the bravest. They are the most cheerful. I wish I could share their secret...