Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eyes. In 1947 he went back to South China, began teaching Chinese peasants to operate U.S. tractors. "In Nationalist-held territory," he told the Senators last week, "our work was disappointing. The land belonged to the largest landowners . . . ordinary folk went hungry." On UNRRA orders, Hinton was sent across the battle lines to Communist-held Hopei. Suddenly, even the sun seemed to shine more brightly in his eyes...
Pridi the Nationalist. Thailand (Siam) has little in common with Indo-China; it has been independent since the late 18th century (except for the Japanese occupation in World War II), and is therefore free from Indo-China's colonial handicap...
Peking's chosen instrument, Pridi Phanomyong, is of notably nationalist-not Communist-background. In 1932 he helped Phibun set up Thailand's popular constitutional monarchy. He was named rector of Bangkok's respected University of Moral and Political Sciences. During World War II, Pridi led Thailand's underground resistance against the Japanese while Phibun was comfortably presiding over his country's Japanese puppet government (which declared...
This week Peiping radio broadcast a note in which the Chinese Communist government "expressed its regret at this accidental and unfortunate incident," offered to pay compensation and said its pilots had mistaken the British plane for a Chinese Nationalist bomber. A few hours later the State Department announced that there was more to the story than had been told: two U.S. planes, from two carriers assigned to "cover and protect" rescue operations, had shot down two Chinese Communist planes which had attacked them over the high seas while they were searching for survivors...
...Saigon's safer atmosphere, Viet Nam's new nationalist Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem tried to inspire defiance. He formed a Cabinet of eager young Vietnamese who had never truckled to the French. "A cease-fire," warned Diem, "should not lead to partition, which no Vietnamese wants and which can only lead to a new and more murderous war." Unhappily, for Diem and for his people, he seemed to be talking against the wind...