Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argued that the West could bargain more firmly after the projected NATO troop buildup was complete, and that it was unseemly to be hasty. There were those present who thought the French had another motive. Prolonging the Berlin crisis a few extra weeks is one way to keep some nationalist responsibility alive in the French Army, which is nearly out of hand over Algeria and Tunisia. Courteously, Rusk bowed for now to his allies' insistent demands. But as a matter of fact, he, too. has some firm dates in mind. He thinks some parleying with Moscow must begin before...
Johnson is dismayed by the form that Canadian nationalist sentiment has recently taken, because it appeals to "the most undesirable features of the Canadian character. In these I include not only the mean and underhanded anti-Americanism which serves many Canadians as an excuse for their failure to accomplish anything worthy of genuine national pride, but also the small-town pettiness of outlook that is the shadow side of many Canadian virtues. Far from contributing to the growth of a stronger, more independent nation, Canadian nationalism has been diverting Canada into a narrow and garbage-cluttered...
...Communist world. They also favor a deal to admit Outer Mongolia to the U.N. in exchange for a Soviet agreement to admit Mauritania, on Morocco's southern border. This. they argue, would win gratitude for the U.S. among the new African nations. Chen warned the President that Nationalist China might veto the admission of Outer Mongolia...
Similarly, the document considered left-wingers and "welfare statists" hopelessly naive and the pawns of capitalists, but allowed for cooperation with such misguided liberals to serve Communist ends. In the colonialist struggles, even local business groups (in Marxist jargon, "the nationalist bourgeoisie") still have a "progressive role" that is "not yet spent." An orthodox, old-fashioned Marxist theoretician might find some of this ambivalence not very well thought out as doctrine, even while conceding its usefulness as propaganda...
...fight off three invasion attempts by guerrilla bands. Lisbon accused Portuguese Guinea's neighbor, Senegal, of helping the rebels; Senegal retaliated by promptly breaking off diplomatic relations with Lisbon. Even the large and prosperous East African colony of Mozambique, which has so far been quiet, is stirring with nationalist fervor. Mozambique rebels in nearby Tanganyika, given asylum by Prime Minister Julius Nyerere, boast that they will soon turn the colony into "another Angola...