Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Smuts lost his . own seat by 224 votes. He tendered his resignation as Prime Minister to Governor General Gideon Brand van Zyl, who asked the Nationalist leader-myopic, paunchy Dr. Daniel François Malan - to take over. Dr. Malan (pronounced mah-lahn) is a onetime predikant (minister) of the Dutch Reformed Church, was once a Sundayschool pupil of Smuts. Malan left his pulpit to edit a Nationalist paper, has been in politics ever since...
...slow. But literate Britons in South Africa queasily remembered a book called When Smuts Goes-a lurid, Wellsian prophecy of South Africa's future-published last winter by Dr. Arthur M. Keppel-Jones, a wispy historian at the University of Witwatersrand. When Smuts Goes predicted a Nationalist accession to power, an oppressive rule by extremists, a bloody suppression of black revolt, wholesale escape of blacks and emigration of British, founding of the "Ox-Wagon Republic," eventual war between the civilized world and South Africa, which would be left to devastation and barbarism...
...other fronts, however, the sagging Nationalists gave ground. Shantung was almost entirely in Communist hands. Along the strategic corridor from North China toward Manchuria the Communists seemed ready for new offensives. For General Hu, as for all of Nationalist China, the external and internal pressures were mounting...
...former high official of the Kuomintang and a member of the Chinese National Student Federation joined in condemning the methods and aims of Chiang Kaf-shek's Nationalist Government last night in a meeting sponsored by the Committee for Wallace...
Characterizing the Generalissimo as "another Hitler," General Fong Mu-sheng, a self-declared exile opposing the Nationalist policies, claimed that the Kuomintang has lost the loyalty of both soldiers and people as a result of whole-sale graft and treachery...