Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tenth" (the tenth day of the tenth month) they renew that faith in celebrating the anniversary of the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and the founding of the Chinese Republic by Dr. Sun Yatsen. Last week, on a bright, breezy day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek watched his U.S.-equipped Nationalist army roll by in an impressive display of motorized armor. Overhead Chinese and U.S. jets left vapor trails above the fleecy clouds...
Across Southeast Asia, thousands of overseas Chinese displayed new loyalty to the red, white and blue banner of the republic. In refugee-swamped Macao, they staged the biggest demonstration since the Reds seized China. In sensitive Hong Kong, far more Chinese showed Nationalist colors on Double Tenth than had displayed the Red flag on the Oct. 1 anniversary of the Communist victory. In neutralist Cambodia, more Chinese shut their shops on the Nationalists' holiday than on the Communists'. Editorialized the New York Times hopefully: "The concept of freedom cannot be killed by Communist maneuver. The new and great...
...brags were inadvertent admissions of the depth of the unrest. Only a week earlier, Dr. Hu Shih, modern China's most eminent philosopher and most respected scholar, speaking for Nationalist China at the U.N. for the first time since 1945, documented some of the details of last summer's student revolt that the regime had tried hard to suppress. It began, said Dr. Hu Shih, with a meeting of 8,000 students at Peking University, where 19 student leaders openly attacked the Communists' suppression of freedom, spread when the leaders launched a periodical calling on students...
...Defense Minister Khaled el Azm, the man who negotiated the Syrian-Soviet army deal. Azm had once accused Saud of being a friend of Israel and a tool of imperialists, and this the King would not forgive. Azm is an example of the kind of confused Arab nationalist that the Russians are doing so well with these days. At a recent banquet greeting a Russian delegation, Azm praised his startled guests by proclaiming, "The Soviet Union has fought Communism in our country...
After being re-elected by 80 unanimous votes, Hammarskjold heard himself eulogized for an hour by such disparate personalities as Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov and Nationalist China's T. F. Tsiang. Said U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge: "We have paid a great personal tribute to a great man. We have also done the U.N. a great favor...