Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that this was a "war for Egyptian independence"-"liberating Egypt from the oppressing domination of the English." Although the Egyptians showed no particular desire to be unyoked, the Egyptian Cabinet neither declared war against Italy nor prepared its armed forces for action. But four Cabinet members from the Saadist (nationalist) Party, traditionally anti-British, resigned on the ground that the only honorable thing to do was to fight the Italian invaders...
...jolted into any unwonted summer activity were the mission headquarters of other U. S. denominations, most of which occupy begrimed buildings on Manhattan's lower Fourth and Fifth Avenues. Mission secretaries complacently recalled China's stand in 1927 when the Nationalist Government insisted that natives head every Chinese Christian college and school. Then pessimists thought missions in China were done for. Now, thanks to dogged heroism during China's war, missionaries have more influence there than ever before. But China was not trying to become a totalitarian state. In Japan the time may soon come when Christians...
...rules Japan's Methodists. The Japanese Methodist Church formerly elected bishops for a four-year term. Last October, when Bishop Abe was chosen, the Japanese Government stipulated that he should hold office for life. The Methodists obediently changed their constitution. With the favor of Japan's nationalist rulers, Bishop Abe may receive powers over Japanese Christians similar to those which Hitler's Reich-Bishop Ludwig Miiller tried in vain to use on German Protestants...
...scolding with picturesque spleen, his enemies would have made short work of him. He was much more. In an atmosphere saturated with alien intellectual influences, he remained steadfastly and intelligently native. While most U. S. writers sighed for Europe, he looked resolutely and fondly homeward. He was a cultural nationalist before his contemporaries had thought up the term. And like most pioneers, he was a little too forthright, a little too blunt, a little funny...
...stability in East Asia" (i. e., Japan's sphere of exclusive domination) ; to re-examine Japanese-Soviet relations, with a view to possible rapprochement; to end "reliance" on the U. S. and Great Britain; to leave political-party members out of the Cabinet, at least until the new nationalist single party, which Prince Konoye has been fostering, comes into being. At week's end Minseito, the only important group which had not signified its support of the single-party idea...