Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What would happen to Nationalist China should Red China be admitted to the U.N.? A: "The Formosa government is not China . . . whatever else it is. It is Formosa, and to call it China is slightly stretching language...
...hopelessly swamped, the Vietnamese Junior Chamber of Commerce appealed to its corresponding chapters in other lands for medical help. First to arrive were six doctors and three nurses from the Philippines, financed by contributions from schoolchildren. As "Operation Brotherhood" got rolling, in came three French nurses, four Japanese, 19 Nationalist Chinese, three Thais, five Malayans, two U.S. secretaries, and some 200 Filipino doctors, nurses, dentists, nutritionists, social workers. Aged 18 to 60,they manned 14 medical centers, traveled through the Mekong delta by canoe and sampan, by army truck over the rugged roads of the Annam border country...
Encouraged by the Nationalist Chinese legation, Viet Nam's race-proud Chinese almost to a man ignored the naturalization order and launched a campaign of economic retaliation. Rice exports, one of South Viet Nam's chief sources of foreign exchange, dwindled to nothing, and to the dismay of Viet Nam's farmers, the domestic price of rice fell to its lowest level in years. Large-scale shipments of Chinese capital to Hong Kong sent the price of gold and black-market dollars soaring in Viet Nam. But stubborn Ngo Dinh Diem had no intention of backing down...
Revolution that Failed. Bolivia's inflation is the tragic result of a calculated-risk policy of deficit financing. The ruling Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.), seizing power in 1952, set off a historic, all-embracing economic and political revolution. M.N.R. nationalized the major industry, tin mining, confiscating the properties of the powerful tin barons. It revamped land tenure, giving indentured farm hands plots of their own -"like Lincoln's freeing the slaves," says President Hernan Siles Zuazo...
Although he was hired primarily as an administrator, he has been called on to make policy decisions during Dulles' absences. His conduct during the Saudi Arabian tank controversy and his demand that Nationalist China be included as an "equal" in U.S.-Red China negotiations over Formosa were notably inept actions, and certainly disenchanted the White House...