Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists had often used a people's nationalist feelings as an instrument of their own power drives; they are now doing so in Asia. But Tito and his followers are driven by a genuine nationalism as strong as Russia's own. World communism had been rent by differences and ideological conflicts before; most were over tactics. Titoism stabs at the very heart of Communist power and doctrine...
...week, Nationalist Nanking and Red Peiping had bargained and bickered over terms. Peiping's Red radio had spurned a new Nationalist petition for an "equal and honorable peace." "Mad and erroneous," it shouted at Nanking. "There is only one way to peace, and that is complete surrender...
Armed guards had thrown a tight cordon around Peiping's Wagon Lits Hotel, where a six-man Nationalist peace delegation sipped tea and sampled the Communist temper. Not even the hostelry's Italian barber Martelliti was allowed to pass the barricade. Not even the delegation's leader, soft-talking General Chang Chih-chung, could soothe the Reds' truculence...
During the Communist siege of Taiyuan, Marshal Yen Hsi-Shan, leader of the Nationalist forces, arranged to have TIME Pacific parachuted to him along with the ammunition supplied by chartered planes. In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur reads TIME, as does Emperor Hirohito, after his secretary translates...
...Lawrence of Arabia in World War I and with the Vichy French in 1941. Though Zaim was a veteran of many losing causes, he rose steadily, first to chief of Syria's police, and finally to army chief of staff. First rumors were that Zaim was an ardent nationalist, who would break off truce negotiations with Israel, cancel the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co.'s rights to build a pipeline through Syria (TIME, Sept. 15, 1947), and throw in his lot with Trans-jordan's King Abdullah, whose avowed hope it is to build a "Greater Syria." Zaim...