Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faintly smoking volcano. Here & there snipers' rifles cracked. But mostly the British and Dutch sat waiting behind their guns in strongholds of European authority like Batavia, Surabaya, Semarang, Bandung. Beyond these cities, in the rich hinterland of Java, under the red-&-white flag of the Indonesian Republic, the nationalist leaders of 50,000,000 people were also marking time...
Promise & Threat. For sensitive Indonesians Dr. Van Mook's words held a threat as well as a promise. Were the Dutch planning to split the nationalist Government, to divide and rule, in the best tradition of European imperialism...
...elections were originally scheduled for late this month, but MacArthur's purge had disrupted party organizations and all campaign plans. At least 107 of the present Diet's Representatives (full membership: 466) were said to be ultra-nationalist or militarist, and therefore ineligible for reelection...
From General Douglas MacArthur came an order: henceforth all "who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest" and all "influential" members of nationalist (or terrorist) societies are to be barred from public office...
...months the country had watched the Raj's court-martial of three "Indian National Army" officers who had fought with the Japanese against Britain. More than 30 had been killed in protest riots (TIME, Dec. 3). A severe sentence might make these men martyrs, and touch off another nationalist explosion...