Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attempts That Failed. In various U.N. agencies and committees more than 150 attempts have been made (23 of them since the Eisenhower Administration took office) to seat a Chinese Communist delegate. All have failed. Only last week India tried to oust the Nationalist Chinese delegate on the Trusteeship Council. The move was voted down 9 to 2 (India and Russia), with Britain abstaining...
...life I give for the freedom of my country," said the note carried in the pocketbook of ember-eyed Lolita Lebroón the bloody day last March when she and three henchmen of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalist Party sprayed the chamber of U.S. House of Representatives with pistol bullets, wounding five Congressmen.* Last week Terrorist Lebroón got a much lighter sentence than she apparently expected. Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff gave her the maximum for assault with a dangerous weapon: 50 years in prison, with eligibility for parole in 16 years, eight months...
...kings, as Viet Nam's chief of state. But Bao Dai usually complied with French demands, and therefore got almost no public support, while Moscow Servant Ho Chi Minh was often admired simply because he was anti-French. Not until last month did Viet Nam get a genuinely nationalist Prime Minister, Ngo Dinh Diem - probably too late to make up for France's long refusal to prepare the Vietnamese for self-government and self-defense, probably too late to save the nation's freedom...
...Died. Tang En-po. 55. Chinese Nationalist general; after surgery; in Tokyo. A onetime boy wonder in China's eight-year war against Japan. General Tang met only defeat at the hands of the Chinese Communists, was sacked after the fall of Shanghai...
Russia had warned that it "will be forced to take appropriate measures for safeguarding the security of Soviet Merchant ships," presumably hinting that it might provide naval escorts for them in Far Eastern waters. After thinking things over, Nationalist China this week announced that it had decided to confiscate the tanker's cargo but to return the ship itself...