Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land is ours again," screamed Nationalist students at Pretoria and Stellenbosch universities. "We're boss now," crowed three young toughs in Prime Minister Daniel Malan's own Piquetberg; they stormed into Grocer Abe Ginsberg's Main Street store and helped themselves to cheese. "In future we'll take what we want without paying." In rural Burghersdorp a pro-Malan voter had got so excited over the election returns on his radio that he ran out firing his rifle in the air, accidentally shot down his antenna. A Smuts supporter kicked his radio to smithereens...
...South Africa's Prime Ministers by Anglophile Cecil Rhodes, Anglophobe Malan had named a cabinet to match the opposition's worst fears: not a single representative of South Africa's English-speaking groups. Several of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime Minister Smuts for pro-Hitler sympathies. Malan's government promptly canceled the ban as well as the Smuts-sponsored program for training Negro labor...
General Wang had considerable supporting evidence. U.S. flyers who transported Nationalist troops from the interior to the coast (after V-J day) frequently discovered soldiers' wives and concubines disguised in army uniforms. Some Chinese even blamed the disaster of Shihchiachuang last year on the women. A Nationalist army, moving north from that strategic city, was so encumbered by carts bearing wives and household possessions that it blundered into a Communist ambush, was destroyed in a three-day fight. A week later, undermanned Shihchiachuang fell, the greatest single government loss...
...Chen's officers begged him to lead a last attack. In a midnight sortie, Chen and his handful of troops cut their way to safety through the Nationalist lines. Later, during the war with Japan, Chen built the survivors into the Reds' new Fourth Army. He opened a corridor into Shantung province, where Japs were mauling the Nationalist defenders. Then Chen moved in and attacked-not the Japs-but the disorganized Nationalists. He wrote another poem, an ode to victory...
Last year the government tried to pry Chen out of Shantung. It launched a big and costly offensive that plunged across Shantung to the seaport of Chefoo. Strafing Nationalist planes shot up his staff car, wounded Chen. His men were again driven into mountain hideouts...