Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French set up an Algerian Parliament to deal with local affairs. The Arabs' Nationalist Party withdrew from elections, maintaining (correctly) that the seating was rigged in favor of the French colons. Extremists organized a bloody rising in the eastern mountains last year. Moderate Nationalists might have worked for compromise, but the French outlawed the entire party and declared that because "Algeria is France," revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. When Morocco's "Fateful Day" arrived a fortnight...
...week's end a tumultuous convention in the government-owned Manila Hotel gave complete power to a Magsaysay-controlled executive committee to select a nine-man senatorial slate from the 55 candidates nominated on the floor. Then the 900 Nationalist delegates listened passively to a passionate speech by old Party Leader Jose P. Laurel, affirming his loyalty to Magsaysay but nominating his old friend Recto for a place on the party ticket. But Recto had little expectation that the executive committee would have him. He would run for the Senate anyway, possibly as an independent, he announced...
...Skins for Old. Last week that was changing. An investigating committee from the Nationalist government's Census Bureau and Native Affairs Department was cross-examining hundreds of Coloreds, and wherever they discovered enough "native blood" or "native associations," freely rescinding their privileges. The cross-examining was centered on the 30,000 Coloreds who have moved from Cape Province, their traditional home, to the hustling metropolis of Johannesburg (pop. 800,000). Their migration does not fit in with the Strydom government's apartheid (segregation) plans...
General Sun Li-jen, 55, has long been known as one of the ablest, bravest, as well as one of the most "Western-minded" leaders in the Chinese Nationalist high command. He learned his trade at Virginia Military Institute (class of '27) and practiced it heroically in smashing Japanese armies in Burma in World War II. Ordered to Formosa in 1946 to train new armies, he organized Chiang Kai-shek's forces for the liberation of the mainland and from 1950 to 1954 held the job of army commander in chief. Last week the Taipei government abruptly announced...
...fluency in English (learned at V.M.I, and Purdue), he had often privately confided to visitors that the defeats on the mainland the troubles in the army command and the confusions on Formosa all traced straight to the Gimo's insistence upon personalizing his regime and identifying the Nationalist and anti-Communist causes with himself...