Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated that the situations in the various Mandates were having their repercussions in the other Arabian-speaking parts of the world. The sense of solidarity which exists between all Arabic-speaking peoples, he explained, was the result of a Nationalist movement which has been in progress for a hundred years...
...rate of this reviewer). If he is too severe with Whistler, or too lenient and even worshipful to Winslow Homer, Mr. Cahill at least gives good reasons for his preferonech, and he never lets the historical and nocini nilliett get out of night; he is obviously a nationalist who believes in an indigenous American art, not subservient to European tradition or contemporary whim, but integrated with the actualities of the society in which it is conceived. Like everybody else nowadays, Mr. Cahill sees through the "fatal facility" of Sargent; on the other hand he is not intinridated by the pretensions...
...from General Huang Mu-sung. No direct word came from him for weeks, but last week Huang Mu-sung was back in Nanking, his yellow face wreathed in smiles. Tibet, he roundly swore, was ready to forget 21 years of estrangement from China, would now cooperate fully with the Nationalist Government...
Pride of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are the series of great airports which his Nationalist Government is building across north and central China. A new one was nearing completion last week at Haichow, 250 miles north of Shanghai and at the very edge of the Japanese sphere of influence. Out to see the new airport went a trainload of tourists, among whom were 18 toothy, smiling little Japanese in civilian clothes. Sentries met them at the wire gates, guides were assigned to show them around. Hissing polite appreciation, the Japanese went everywhere, promptly unloaded a battery of cameras and began...
Meanwhile at Loyang in Central Honan Province an army of sweating, blue-clad coolies was busy as ants rolling, grading, carting dirt, dumping fill for another of the four key air bases in the Nationalist Government's plan. Not since the Middle Ages has the dilapidated mud-walled city of Loyang seen such activity. Beneath a row of dusty cliffs, Loyang, long before the Manchus glorified Peiping, was the capital of six dynasties of Chinese Emperors. There is nothing to show for it today but miles of imperial burial mounds and the hope that lies in the workshops...