Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More & more people were drifting into banditry and into U Aung San's nationalist, loud, leftist Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. Last week, Aung San paraded through Rangoon in a jeep, waving a red flag, while thousands of ragged Burmans shouted: "Down with the Government!" Few Burmans really wanted violence, but a British officer estimated that there were enough weapons hidden in the country for a "long and bloody struggle." The crucial factor would be the size of next November's rice crop. Now Burmans chanted an old verse with new, ominous meaning...
Deep in Communist territory to the north, 24,000 Nationalist troops held out in the ancient fortress town of Tatung (now an important rail junction) against a month-long siege by 80,000 Communists. In Jehol, Communists said that Chiang Kai-shek was massing for a drive against Chengteh...
Center of Impact. Last week the focus of fighting was along the east-west Lunghai Railroad. There Communists had surged south to capture Kaifeng, and 90 miles of track. Nationalist armies counterattacked, and pushed the Communists off the railroad east of Kaifeng...
Only three days earlier Peron's wheelhorse, Senator Diego Luis Molinari, had told fellow nationalists in a Buenos Aires cafe: "We have won, sovereignty is saved" (i.e., the treaty was out). Now he rose in the Senate to ready the majority decision on Chapultepec: "When we are asked if we want this to be a free and independent nation, we cry full of the holy spirit of justice, unanimously and spontaneously yes, for the independence of the Argentine nations." The nationalist gallery clapped thunderously...
Outside noisy nationalists started the first real political demonstration since Peron's election. Somebody climbed the Senate flagpole, lowered the flag to half-mast. Small bands roamed the streets shouting "Peron betrayed us." Police pinched 45, and cracked skulls as of old-this time nationalist skulls...