Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When tough, tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 110 lbs.) Chen Cheng, the Vice President and Premier of Nationalist China, flew into Washington's MATS terminal one day last week, the capital simmered in tropical 90° heat. But more than the weather had Chen warm under the collar. After years of concord, relations between the U.S. and her stanchest Pacific ally seemed to be falling into disturbing disarray...
...Nationalist China began to wonder about John Kennedy and his advisers even before the election, when the future President implied that Quemoy and Matsu were not worth defending. Doubts rose higher after the inauguration, when the State Department leaked out hints of such possible diplomatic moves as a new "two China" policy and recognition of Outer Mongolia; U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson seemed to surrender be fore the battle when months ago he spoke of Red China's admission to the U.N. as being inevitable. Recently, Formosa's dismay over U.S. diplomacy rose to such a degree that Ambassador...
...Kennedy and Chen came to no agreement on specific strategy to keep Red China out of the U.N. The Nationalist government, Chen said, will fight to continue the moratorium on debating the subject. But most State Department experts think that the moratorium, as a gag on free discussion, has lost too much favor with a General Assembly now swollen to 99 members, with most of the new nations opposed to the idea. The DOS planners would prefer to conduct open arguments on the merit of Red China's admission-and seek to have the question classified as an "important...
...side. Fully one-fourth of all the villages were in the hands of the Communist guerrillas, and often this was more voluntary than forced. The fact was that hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese, naive and illiterate, thought of the rebels not as Communists but as resistants continuing the nationalist battle first started against the French. To these peasants. "Uncle" Ho Chi Minh is still a hero, and under the influence of Viet Cong propaganda, they have become convinced that the U.S. has simply replaced the French as their overlords. All too often, local officials have been appointed by Diem...
...That is really a sight to see when such a bourgeois patriot begins to become incandescent and one knows it is all merely playacting. Pretending nationalist passions is as appropriate to our passionless lazy burghers as an old whore miming love...