Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence, a conservative Democrat. "It probably was the first message at an inaugural ceremony directed in its entirety to all the peoples of the world as well as to the people of the U.S." Wrote Fair-Dealer Doris Fleeson: "From start to finish the President decisively repudiated the isolationist-nationalist sentiments with which his party was so long identified. The new Democratic Congress will have no choice but to uphold...
...still there. The Israelis watch edgily from across a 330-mile border, and at some future date might not mind advancing to the Jordan River, a natural frontier some 30 miles east from the present boundary, if they thought they could get away with it. The unceasing Arab nationalist agitation among Jordan's large Palestinian refugee population has moved young King Hussein to offer to give up his throne if that would advance the cause of Arab unity. Admitting that "Jordan cannot live forever as Jordan," Premier Suleiman Nabulsi two months ago called for federation with other Arab states...
Once a Dictator. To everyone's surprise, Magsaysay freely admitted that he had indeed signed a secret pact. Disillusioned by the corruption around him while serving as Defense Minister in the Liberal government of President Elpidio Quirino, Magsaysay agreed to bolt the Liberal Party and accept the Nationalist Party nomination for President. But in his pact with the Nationalists' José Laurel and Recto and Senator Lorenzo Tañada of the Citizen's Party, Magsaysay had made no stipulation about one term, he said. In fact, he told TIME'S James Bell last week, "Laurel...
Documents captured in 1952 on Huk Communist guerrillas, said Magsaysay, listed many top Nationalist politicians as possible collaborators in a popular front. President Quirino planned to use these records to arrest all his top opponents as Communists or fellow travelers, and they knew it. Says Magsaysay: "Quirino even talked about killing Tañada. I wouldn't have anything to do with all this, because these men, whatever they may be, are not Communists. They were all afraid to run. They thought Quirino would have them assassinated. So they all stayed in their foxholes and told me to take...
...shuffled out. The leftists could now count on a majority because so many moderate members of Parliament had fled the country, and the moderates who stayed were not strong. "I'm tired of being a civilian front for an army clique," said one minister visiting in Lebanon. A nationalist moderate himself, Premier Sabri el Assali managed to keep the Interior Ministry with its police authority himself, and to keep" Serraj's closest friends out of the Cabinet...