Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morgan spent most of the next 23 years on the Riviera. When she returned to her native Japan in 1938, the nationalist press greeted her return with scorn. "Mme. Yuki," one paper snorted, "the Japanese who doesn't speak Japanese." Last week, however, all Japan was mooning over the tale of the little geisha who years ago had first snubbed and then snared the rich American. 0-Yuki's story had run an unprecedented 260 installments in three newspapers. The text was supported by pictorial tearjerkers, such as George and O-Yuki sleeping on Japanese-style mats...
General Fu had proved able to do one other thing rather better than most Chinese commanders: he had organized the people of the northwest countryside in active support of the Nationalist cause. Months before Nanking called for it, Fu had mobilized district militia, mustered them out every morning at 6 for intensive calisthenics and political lectures. Rifles were few but spirits were high. When Fu drove out Communists he returned most land titles to the old owners but insisted that rents be sharply reduced (never more than a third of the yield). As a practical agrarian reformer, Fu pleased...
French resistance was of a military and nationalist nature in the North of France, but more political in the Vichy-controlled sector, Bethoin said, then linking this phenomenon with the concentration of present Communist strength in southern France...
...House committee also decided on beneficence in another direction. Under the prodding of Minnesota's Walter H. Judd, who was once a missionary in China, it voted to give Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government $20 million a month, starting in January (instead of in April, as Secretary of State Marshall had proposed). At this rate, China would get $60 million in interim...
...perhaps even more crucial, deficit: "It takes a cause and a strong conviction to be willing to die. Our soldiers don't have it. It's simply the old story of haves and havenots. The Communists convince their troops that they are fighting to get something, the Nationalist troops don't know what they're fighting...