Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message from Vice President Nixon was mysteriously held up in red tape for five days, but from the opening day, claques cheered greetings from Khrushchev, Chou En-lai and the "Prime Minister of North Korea." When a "fraternal delegate" from Red China stalked out of the meeting because the Nationalist Chinese flag was flying, Chairman Mboya ordered the offending flag removed. Mboya himself kicked up a bit of a fuss by repeating the charges he recently made in London that a leading witness against the convicted Mau Mau leader, Jomo Kenyatta, had perjured himself in return for a British Colonial...
...Middle East. Iraqi Premier Karim Kassem, needing political support for his army dictatorship, has had to call upon the Communists to fight off those who want to merge Iraq into Nasser's one big Arab nation. At this crucial point, a crack is showing in those Arab nationalist forces which were formerly united by the simple desire to expel the West...
...those who came to Accra were for the most part not angry, chained men but hardheaded realists, some of whom, now that their countries are becoming independent, can no longer live simply by indicting imperialism. They were getting an opportunity for the first time to meet other black nationalists from all over the continent, to size them up, to swap ideas, to get a psychological boost from the feeling that others were with them. For all the fiery phrases about "solidarity and fraternity" and for all the placards reading, "Forward to Independence Now!" this was no gathering of obedient line...
...Harassed King Mohammed promptly turned to the one man who seemed to have the authority to halt the bickering inside the Istiqlal; he asked Allal el Fassi, 48, the party's political leader, to become Premier. El Fassi is both a religious mystic and a rabble-rousing extreme nationalist who has led the agitation for a "Greater Morocco," to include large hunks of the French Sahara. He proposed too many leftist Cabinet ministers to suit the King. Last week the King saw little choice but to run the country himself, with a group of "technicians" as ministers. Under pressure...
Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, and third member of the panel sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe United Nations Council, argued that the United States should "bring pressure on Chiang Kai-Shek to get a withdrawal of Nationalist troops from Quemoy and Matsu...