Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Career. At war's end, Slim plunged deeper than ever into the struggle for liberation. As political director of Neo Destour. for nine years he traveled tirelessly and worked secretly setting up nationalist movement units all over the country. His black Citroën (license No. 225) was featured on so many French police posters that it became famous throughout Tunisia. The French caught him in 1952, jailed him for two years, released him just in time to assist Bourguiba in the 1954 independence negotiations with French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès-France. He became Bourguiba...
...military and foreign affairs expert, Chairman Mende is one of its strongest advocates for retention of his country's present ties with the West. In strategic matters, his current difference with NATO concerns the U.S. helmets worn by German troops. As an ex-soldier and a nationalist, Erich Mende thinks German boys should wear old-style German steel helmets. He may yet be in a position to see that they get them...
...fighting buffaloes." For others, like the U.A.R. and Afghanistan, neutralism is an attractive and well-paying way to draw economic and military aid from both blocs. For almost all, lambasting the West is an automatic reflex, since nearly all have emerged from fierce nationalist struggles against some form of Western hegemony. What they fail to realize is that they can enjoy the luxury of neutralism only because the West stands between them and Russia's ambitions for worldwide dominance. If the Western "imperialists" ever go under, the neutralists' new-found freedom will go with them...
...supplanting of old and mellowing Nationalist politicians with young zealots totally loyal to the Prime Minister...
...British sent to jail in 1953 for organizing the ferocious Mau Mau terror. After eight years. Kenya's Governor Sir Patrick Renison had convinced both himself and the Colonial Office in London that British forces could handle any threat to public order posed by the old African nationalist's release...