Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalist days was the tough, tight-fisted war lord of Yunnan province, took a crack at the most sacrosanct foreign idol of all. Said General Lung, now a vice chairman of Red China's National Defense Council: "It is totally unfair for the People's Republic of China to pay all the expenses of the Korean War. The U.S. has given up her claims for loans she granted to her allies during the first and second world wars, yet the Soviet Union insists that China must pay interest on Soviet loans." He would like to know, Lung added...
...cannot get their crops to market over muddy roads," said Farmer Talmadge, "we build a huge six-lane turnpike in Portugal to a gambling resort. We have sent opera singers to Italy and ultraviolet-ray lamps to India. And we have set up a pension program for overage Chinese Nationalist soldiers...
...much of the world fell for the slogans about the Chinese Reds as mere agrarian reformers, about Nationalist corruption, etc.. it was, says Chiang, partly his government's fault: "We lacked initiative in propaganda and substance in ideology." The Red victory, by Chiang's reckoning, was only 20% military; for the rest he details the case histories of treachery, infiltration, propaganda, the exploitation of an uprooted social order. One of the Reds' earliest tactics, recalls Chiang, was to incite the poor of a village to loot before Communist agents burned down the house of the landlords...
...Nationalist Chinese capital of Taipei on Formosa. Kishi was met by a crowd of more than 600, whisked off from the airport in a 15-car motorcade to the official guest house, which housed the Japanese Governors-General in Japan's prewar days as ruler of Formosa. Kishi presented Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with two embroidered silk comforter covers (a standard Japanese wedding gift), received in turn from the Gimo two grass bed mats and a decorative ship model fashioned from pale pink seashells. The old enemies got along quite well...
...Council. But Juan Lechin, executive secretary of the powerful workers' confederation, was looking out for labor and labor alone. At the confederation's second congress last week, he burst into an impassioned defense of the featherbedding privileges that the workers took for their own after bringing the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.) to power in 1952. He demanded death for the Eder program ("He speaks the language of the English viceroy in India"), and an end to wage ceilings. In the wake of the speech the boliviano took its first serious flutter in recent months...