Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caused the Nationalist government to move from Nanking to Canton...
...frankest description so far pinned on the U.S.'s wavering, feckless China policy: "Wait until the dust settles." That Mi-cawberism, which Dean Acheson had inherited when he took office, was not enough for Walter Judd. He blamed the U.S. for consistently undermining Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. Acheson countered that the Chiang government was corrupt, that U.S. military supplies inevitably fell to the Communists without a real fight. Then Judd assailed the State Department's long effort to sell China a coalition government. Said Judd: "The Chinese knew then, and it took us a long...
...next 15 years that he became known as the "Minister of Surpluses." When war came in 1939, he plumped for South African neutrality, split with Prime Minister Smuts, and two years later disappeared into the political wilderness. Last spring he allied his Afrikaaner Party with the race-conscious Nationalist Party (TIME, June 7) and rode back into power when Smuts went...
...make peace not only with the Communists, but with his own Premier, Sun Fo, and the entire Nationalist cabinet, now stubbornly entrenched in Canton. Sun Fo and his faction refuse to go along with Li's policy of peace-at-any-price, want to hold out for better terms from the Reds. Last week, Li made a dramatic gesture. He flew south to Canton to bring Sun Fo back into line. At Canton airport, Li and Sun Fo embraced each other. Said a member of Li's staff: "The mountain has come to Mohamed...
...them in U.S. colleges. A few have come on scholarships; some have been sent by their government, but most have come on their own. They are in the U.S. to study everything from church music and airline management to philology and nuclear physics. They include many who support the Nationalist government, some who have ranged from undergraduate criticism of their government to outright pro-Communist opposition. Most of them, whatever their politics, were in trouble last week...