Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward destroying Japan's war potential; finding ways to sustain an impoverished island economy which had lost its ships, markets and empire; laying plans for punishing war criminals and collecting reparations; limiting industry and science to the bounds of Japan's restricted peacetime needs; removing militaristic and nationalist influences and restoring civil liberties. It was a tall order. No man or nation had ever before attempted, let alone succeeded in, shifting a whole country from totalitarian feudalism to representative democracy, primarily through use of the country's own nationals...
...Harbin. There was other good news from Manchuria for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government. The Nationalist Army organ Ho Ping Pao reported that the Russians had granted permission for Chiang's forces to occupy I) Changchun, Manchuria's capital, 2) Harbin, Northern Manchuria's rail hub, and 3) Dairen, Manchuria's most important harbor, where the Russians have trade rights. With these three cities, plus the Mukden arsenal and metropolis, the National Government would hold the keys to Manchuria's transport and industry...
Gomes has been called both an ultra-nationalist and "the most pro-American man in Brazil." He neither smokes nor drinks, goes regularly to Mass, is a bachelor (but Rio rumor said last week he might marry a Spanish Socialist). In the campaign his democratic backers played on the handsome Gomes' appeal, advised Brazil's recently enfranchised women to "vote for the Brigadier, handsome and single...
...U.S.S.R. favors a strong, unified China. It is our belief that this objective can be accomplished only by the Central Government of Chiang Kaishek. This government is not the strongest kind of government but it is the strongest in sight in China." Nonetheless, Russian troops had managed to impede Nationalist landings at Manchurian ports and turn over some areas to the Chinese Reds...
Chungking, which three months ago was willing to pay a high price to get the Russians out, was now forced into the ironical position of asking the Red Army to hold Manchurian towns until Nationalist troops could arrive. Chungking papers reported that the Russians were willing-at a further price, which-would include coal-mining concessions and navigation rights on the Sungari river...