Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French nation on a basis of equality. But the statistics (e.g., average income of an Algerian Moslem family is about one-eighth that of a mainland French family), as well as the vast majority of Algerian natives, disagree. In recent months the disagreement has taken the form of violent nationalist resistance and bloody French reprisals...
Conclusive results were not likely for several days. But at week's end, with about a third of the vote counted, it looked as though President Soekarno's anti-Western Nationalist Party, which generated the revolution against the Dutch and then led the nation into a perilous era of economic chaos and collaboration with the Communists, had retained a major voice in Indonesia's affairs...
...stake were 260 seats in a parliament that will govern Indonesia at least until year's end, when a constitutional assembly will be elected to write a permanent constitution for the republic. At issue was whether Indonesia reverts to the neurotic, fuzzily pro-Communist path of the Nationalist government, which fell in July (TIME, Aug. 1), or chooses to stay on the anti-Communist course of the present Masjumi regime, or so splinters its vote that only vague government-by-coalition is possible...
...Nationalists, like Pavlov's one-track-minded dogs, preferred to bark at the Dutch rather than bite into the current issues. In a remote Sumatran village a Nationalist screamed: "Politically you are free, economically you are not. Everything is still Dutch. You are guests in your own home...
...last week 25 Black Sashers formed a double line outside the Bloemfontein city hall, where the Nationalist Party was meeting for its annual conference in the Orange Free State. Just before Strydom arrived, 100 husky members of the Nasionale Jeugbond, the Nationalists' youth group, shouldered the women aside, and formed a solid, muscular phalanx inside the Black Sashers' double line. After Strydom had walked through, the Jeugbond huskies turned brusquely, ripped the black sashes off several women, tore up their placards reading "Respect our Constitution." Some shook their fists in the women's faces...