Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With copious quotations from Marx, Lenin and Stalin, Lombardo demonstrated that this was the "true" revolutionary line for weak and colonial countries: a "nationalist", economic and political front to fight capitalist imperialism...
...Royal Family, assiduously escorted by their busy host Prime MinisterSmuts-whom the King personally invested with the Order of Merit-shuttled between official receptions and informal garden parties, intransigent nationalists wilted left & right before the family's charm. Daniel Malan, nationalist leader of the opposition, conscientiously boycotted Parliament's address of welcome, but even he was on hand at the state banquet. In a Cape Town park, a group of ardent anti-Britishers enjoying a barbecue apologized for their open shirts and rolled-up sleeves when ubiquitous Smuts suddenly appeared and introduced them to the King & Queen...
...monetary crisis last weekend inspired an excited Associated Press cable from Shanghai: "An American consular announcement today blasted Chinese Premier T. V. Soong's abortive 100% export subsidy program, as Chinese currency continued its dizzy descent, and the complete economic collapse of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist China appeared to be a very real possibility...
...deserted houses and furniture for firewood, ate reed stalks until the planes began showering them with mixed (and heavy) blessings. Once, under an UNRRA truce, the Communists let 300,000 catties (200 tons) of millet and corn go into the city. Just as distribution was about to start, Nationalist airplanes arrived with more loaves and canned fishes, smashed several communal kitchens and sent grainbowls, chopsticks and people flying...
...last week the 6,000-odd old men, old women and young children who survived (at least 6,000 others had starved, most youths had escaped) had hope at last. Nationalist troops were advancing into the area, might soon lift the long siege. To Yungnien elders, looking fearfully toward the skies, it seemed about time. Between Communist mortars and Nationalist loaves, they had long ago lost pride in the literal translation of Yungnien's honored name: "Everlasting Year...