Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists, men like Chen were shocked (although Chen has been too correct to say so). To Marshall and other Americans Communism still seems a distant threat. Chen and his friends have had the Reds breathing down their necks for 20 years. It has been war, bitter, open, accepted. Nationalist Communications Minister Yu Ta-wei accepts the fact of war so completely that he can say: "I don't like it, but I don't blame the Communists for tearing up the railroads." And Chen Li-fu held the following icy dialogue with Communist Leader Chou Enlai...
Only seven* nations spend as little as 10% of their budgets for armaments. China contains the largest armies, but many on both the Nationalist and the Communist sides are not organized. Russia has the largest ground force (3,800,000). In spite (or because) of the fact that it is the strongest power, the U.S. gets along with a ground force...
Tunisia. The French record in North Africa was, on the whole, far better than in Indo-China, but the future of North Africa-France's overseas granary-worries the French as much or more. In Tunisia the nationalist Destour Party threatened a one-day general strike this week in "mourning" for the 66-year-old tie with France. Destour Leader Salah Ben Youssef wants total independence, a Tunisia tied to the Arab League, and full membership in U.N. Sorbonne-trained, and often in French prisons for nationalist activity, Ben Youssef says: "In prison you have got nothing...
Algeria. In the oldest of France's North African possessions, and the most "assimilated" to French culture, there is an independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...
More than a few A.G.R.S. men fell into situations which savored of Terry and the Pirates. Communist detachments held some of them prisoner, in the belief that they were spies for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces. One A.G.R.S. team crossed into Indo-China and found a blonde French woman leading a band of Vietnamese guerrillas. A C-47 crew, which crashed in the Himalayan hills, walked back 350 miles through bandit country. For fear of dysentery they lived entirely on boiled eggs until natives talked them into a meal of fried bees (which tasted like a cross between...