Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Western statesmen can draw a profound, though scarcely new, lesson from India's victorious aggression in Goa: that the world's newer nations are going to act in very much the same fashion as its older ones. Which is to say that the newer nations will wage nationalist wars, mask their territorial ambitions with a rhetoric of self-determination and self-defense, and go unpunished...
...General Assembly. With their motives ranging from fellow-Communism to "realism," in favor of seating Red China were: Cuba, the Eastern European satellites, Yugoslavia, U.A.R., Sweden, Ceylon, Indonesia, Ghana and Burma. But some states were troubled. Nigeria's Jaja Wachuku could not accept the expulsion of Nationalist China as a "condition" for the admission of Red China, since the Nationalist government "has under it 11 million people" and is a U.S. ally, so that any attempt to conquer it could lead to a threat of war. Wachuku also noted that there was no indication that Red China even wanted...
Wrathful Hurricane. Russia's Valerian Zorin started off in his high-pitched voice, demanding that Nationalist China be kicked out of the U.N. and the Reds immediately admitted, without "juridical or procedural complexities.'' This was aimed at the U.S. strategy to have Chinese representation be declared an "important question," which would require a two-thirds vote instead of a simple majority...
Unbridled Power. But preceding the U.S., Nationalist China's Ambassador Tingfu Tsiang went to the rostrum, and Zorin led the other Communist bloc delegates in a walkout from the General Assembly. Tsiang dismissed the Communist regime as "un-Chinese in origin, nature and purpose." Reviewing the grim record of Red tyranny on the mainland. Tsiang urged that tears be shed "over the suffering" of the Chinese people rather than for "their lack of representation...
...Latin American states have failed to pay either their regular budget charges or for any of the U.N. special operations. Total delinquency of the Africans is $842,000, of the Latins, $6,600,000. Also still outstanding is $6,274,483 due on the regular budget from Nationalist China; although they command only Formosa, the Nationalists still represent all China in the U.N., are thus assessed for the whole country...