Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turbulent early years of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government, the brilliant, Harvard-educated Soong performed prodigies of finance and foreign policy as Chiang's No. 2 man while brother-in-law Kung was just a well-placed bureaucrat. But by 1933 Dr. Kung emerged as Finance Minister...
Even such admirers of the President's foreign policy as the New York Times admitted that the program was minimal; and to some it seemed as minimal as could be devised without being nationalist, rather than internationalist. Most Americans found the program unexceptionable-what there was of it. And there was nothing in it that most Republican leaders had not already endorsed. But a loud denunciation came from Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson, who has his own, mathematically rigid plan for world peace. Said he: "The plan will prove a bitter disappointment to the internationalists, who are determined that this...
Unholy Alliance. Bourassa's sudden reappearance in the news evoked memories of a great figure in Canadian history. Thirty years ago Nationalist Bourassa formed an "unholy alliance" with anti-nationalist Tories to defeat French Canada's No. 1 statesman, Sir Wilfred Laurier...
When Laurier sought re-election in 1911 on a platform of tariff reciprocity with the U.S., he found himself denounced by Bourassa's nationalists as an imperialist, by the Tories of English Canada for disloyalty to Britain. Defeated and embittered, Laurier retired to the Opposition, never regained office, died in 1919. Bourassa's nationalist faith deeply affected French Canadian thought. Although he finally quit politics in 1935, he emerged in World War II to fight conscription as bitterly as he had fought the sending of Canadians to South Africa...
Significance: in Wisconsin, whose defeat of Wendell Willkie was hopefully interpreted by some internationalists as no setback for internationalism, shrewd Bob La Follette still chooses to rest his party's election-year chances on a strongly nationalist foreign policy...