Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain, the strongest imperialist, had agreed to occupy southern Indo-China until the French could send forces to reclaim it. Moving into Saigon last month, Major General Douglas Gracey told the nationalist Viet Nam Party to suspend business, asked surrendering Japanese to help him keep the peace, let them keep their arms...
...Politicians. Korea today has al most no politics, and legions of politicians. Seventy-odd parties stepped up to be counted at General Hodge's request. The best guess is that they will shake down to three: 1) a "democratic" party, conservative and nationalist; 2) an extreme left-wing party, Communist-dominated ; 3) a middle or pinkish party, claiming a position comparable to Labor's in Britain...
...young man's thoughts were not solely of God: he studied law as well as theology at the University of Athens. In 1918, the year after he took holy orders, he achieved his first political triumph: an agreement resolving the nationalist quarrels of the Greek, Serbian and Bulgarian monks who inhabit ancient, revered Mount Athos...
...Japanese, they had already warned teachers against continuing nationalist and militarist indoctrination. No more than Westminster could they continue to ignore a world that changed and moved, and yearned to achieve unity while cherishing variety...
...beginnings of modern China. In 1924 the Communists were part of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary people's party, the Kuomintang. Chiang, just back from military training in Moscow, had the job of organizing the Whampoa Military Academy, the nucleus of China's new nationalist army. Mao and Chou were his comrades and the army's political commissars. From Canton the three men marched together on the famed Northern Expedition (1926-27), which gave republican China its first taste of unity. They split when Chiang broke with the Kuomintang's Communist wing and its Russian...