Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry leaders, was trying to pick them off, company by company. Actually, John L. Lewis was winning nothing but minor skirmishes, which he proclaimed as victorious battles. Most of his 480,000 miners were still working a three-day week. By week's end, barely 2% of the nation's soft-coal mines had surrendered to his terms...
...Communist methods of subversive propaganda and intrigue, with the infiltration of armed bands, might have great success against weak or vacillating opposition in a region already full of disorder and unrest. This is the ideal mode of expansion for a nation which lacks real military strength, but can bring to bear politically the mass weight of a population of four hundred millions, the prestige of a traditional ascendancy and the glamour of a revolutionary gospel...
...quarter of a century ago, with Sun Yat-sen's mantle on his shoulders, young Chiang had marched up the mainland to Nanking and into a new Nationalist China. He had embraced Christianity. According to his lights, he had sought to guide his nation into the mainstream of modern civilization. He had broken the warlords, checked an early international Communist conspiracy, survived Japanese aggression-only to go down before a later, greater Communist conspiracy and the corruption which grew up in his own war-torn regime. No national leader had fought armed Communism longer or more tenaciously...
...policy as stated in the Occupation Statute for the West German Republic and the Allied High Commission Charter. It had served as a guide for the recent Acheson-Bevin-Schuman agreements at Paris (TIME, Nov. 21), reiterated the U.S. aim of making West Germany a peaceful, productive and democratic nation, closely "integrated" into the economic fabric of West Europe...
...Genius in the Pot? To most U.S. musicians and music lovers, the ascension of Charles Munch to the nation's most prestigious musical throne had come with the jolting surprise of one of Hector Berlioz' sudden bursts of brass...