Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHUNGKING-Communist forces, now 40,000 strong, have captured most of the Manchurian capital of Changchun and now are reducing remaining Nationalist units in the center of the city, the China Central News agency reported today...
Shorn of this special nationalist fungus, geopolitics is a simple, sensible, and often obvious business, based on the plain truth that geography influences history. At Munich's Geopolitical Institute, Haushofer did much painstaking, genuinely scientific work. Almost directly derived from Brit ain's distinguished geographer, Sir Halford Mackinder, were his more significant theorems...
...King Arthur, Bali was hushed and lifeless. In the village market, bulging a few days before with fruits, vegetables and poultry, counters were bare. Colonel ter Meulen could secure no servants for his headquarters. A dance was scheduled for a U.S. visitor in a village temple; no natives came. Nationalist agitators who had hopped over from Java had not succeeded in converting the Balinese into fire-eating revolutionaries. But fear of the Pemoeda (Javanese extremist Youth Movement) kept the peaceable Balinese from cooperating with the white...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck, British Commander in Chief in India, made two concessions: 1) Indian troops, whose recall from Indonesia was demanded by nationalist rioters, will be withdrawn within five months; 2 ) there will be no mass punishment of mutineers and rioters...
Next day, Egypt's new premier, grizzled old Ismail Sidky Pasha, pleaded with his people to keep their fezzes on. Sidky's regime sympathized with nationalist goals-evacuation of British troops in Egypt, an end to British joint control over the Sudan. But cautious Sidky knew that negotiations to revise the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty might consume weeks; it might take only minutes to touch off another riot...