Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young men and women from Japan, Korea, Nationalist China, the Philippines, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, India and Ceylon-representing nearly a million Asian Baptists-lived for a week at Hong Kong's Baptist mission school, held daily morning sessions of Bible study and group discussion, spent afternoons and evenings enjoying picnics, excursions, movies, talk. Leading topic: national prejudice and discrimination. Said 28-year-old Japanese Reiji Hoshizaki: "When our delegation arrived to attend this conference, our hearts were heavy with apprehension as to how other Asian delegates would feel toward us. We aren't apprehensive any longer. The good...
...were all one family there," he has said. "The landlords treated the people as slaves." His father was an assistant postmaster. Sent to school in Cairo, young Nasser learned the classic Middle East three Rs: reading, 'riting and rioting. Shouting "O Almighty, disaster take the British!", he fought nationalist street battles, won admittance to the military academy. Of these struggles he has bitterly said: "You come back from your studies feeling a new world is in front of you to a home where there is no food...
...Brooklyn, Stockbroker Freeman Koo, 33, Harvard-educated son of Nationalist China's longtime (1946-56) Ambassador to the U.S. V. K. Wellington Koo, took the oath of U.S. citizenship...
...this mood, agreement came easily. The half brothers decided that the fighting (such as it had been) should stop. The Communist districts would rejoin the rest of the little country (pop. 1,400,000), the Communist leaders would eventually join the Nationalist government in a sort of coalition, and the Communist Pathet Lao army would merge into the regular Laotian army. Eventually, the strength of the Communist infiltration would be tested in "nationwide general elections," after a period in which "the Royal Government must recognize and guarantee the right to carry on legitimate activities throughout the country for a patriotic...
...their children. Meanwhile, their leaders and their friends sought help for them from the sprawling network of international organizations designed to ease the way for just such refugees as themselves. The first 2,000 fishermen to arrive got $3.50 each, plus some cast-off clothing, from the government of Nationalist China. A few boxes of food from CARE went to about 527 who arrived last April. For the others there was nothing...