Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene. Inside the prison, Warden Hyacinthe Mariani, accompanied by three high-ranking Paris police officials, begged and pleaded with the prisoners for a restoration of order. So, surprisingly, did one of the prisoners, let out of his cell by his mates. The prisoner: Mohammed ben Bella, the Algerian nationalist leader whom the French kidnaped in Algiers and brought to Sante last year. "Mutiny," Ben Bella told his fellow prisoners (many of them Algerians), "will get you nowhere...
...corruption of Indonesian politics irritated him. The yes men who surrounded him in his nation's first days turned to no men once they were elected to the newly formed Parliament and owed their power to him no longer, but to the electorate. Sukarno disowned even the Nationalist Party which originally was his creation. Only one group stayed slavishly loyal to him, no matter what he said-the Communist Party, which also escaped the brunt of his corruption charges for the reason that it has never been in the Cabinet. When Sukarno, impatient of confused and ineffectual democracy, proposed...
Stalin's autocracy was incapable of dealing with the vastly enlarged empire gained in World War II. The aging dictator ruthlessly suppressed nationalist tendencies in Poland, launched a bitter hate campaign against the recalcitrant Tito, and in the Soviet Union refused his war weary people any of the easing of their misery that they had hoped peace would bring. Toward the end of his days, Stalin may have begun to see the essential weakness of his personal autocracy; in 1952 he called, for the first time since 1939, a congress of the party, reconvened the Central Committee...
Last week the British dutifully returned the Pak Tang and her crew to Red China, but sent the 35 mutineers, at their own request, to Formosa. Awaiting them was a heroes' welcome and the promise of jobs from the Nationalist government. But to the men who had been on the cruise of the Pak Tang, this prospect, while gratifying, was almost unnecessary. "I'm satisfied just being here," said ex-Colonel Yui Teh Hsiu, once the commander of a Nationalist regiment. "We agreed among ourselves that if we failed we would all jump overboard...
...stubborn as well as a sincere man, Sir Omar's British advisers help him achieve his purposes. It has not always been easy in a land that now boasts more than 50 schools but not yet a single college graduate. But even the leader of Brunei's nationalist party (an inevitable byproduct of progress) is mild in his demands. "We want internal self-government, but we will stay in the Commonwealth," he says. "And let me make it clear-we're not 'demanding' anything. We're simply requesting...