Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breathing fire like a paper dragon, Nationalist China still plans to use her veto for the first time in ten years in order to block the admission of 18 new members to the United Nations. This decision is known to have been taken despite two direct appeals from President Eisenhower to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. It has been taken, moreover, in the face of the clear wish of virtually every other country in the UN that the 18 new members, including Outer Mongolia, be admitted to the world organization...
...justification of its veto threat, the Chiang Government claims that Outer Mongolia is not only a fraud and puppet of Soviet Russia, but also a part of China and hence subject to the control of the Nationalists when the day of return to the mainland finally comes. Yet the claim seems to have little basis in legal fact. For the Nationalist Government of China recognized the independence of Outer Mongolia at the end of the war and established diplomatic relations with...
Many diplomats, however, fear that Chiang's plans will boomerang. If Nationalist China does explode the "package deal," the indignation of Arab-Asian countries and many Latin American nations may be so great that there will be a serious effort to eject Nationalist China altogether from the General Assembly at this session. The US might be hard put to block expulsion, even though success in preventing the ouster would require only one-third of the sixty-nation Assembly...
...their usual tithes from restless Berber tribes. The new French
Resident General, Andre Louis Dubois, had turned over much of the
police power to Moroccans, concentrating his 100,000 troops in the
openly rebellious regions of the North. Neither 20,000 Moroccan
militiamen nor the private guard forces of nationalist political
parties were enough to keep order. One week's incidents in Morocco:
Last week electoral colleges, formed according to Nationalist Premier Johannes Strydom's tricky new rules (TIME, May 23 et seq.), met to pack the country's Upper House and create the two-thirds majority that he needs to expunge from the constitution the hateful clause that for 45 years has guaranteed voting rights to 50,000 mixed-blood citizens. In Pretoria a handful of black-sashed members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League took up their stations of mute protest outside the old brownstone Raad-saal where Premier Strydom staged his show. Inside, opposition...