Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warriors were no match for the French, who arrived in the mid-19th century to cut roads and rail lines through the jungle, introduce rubber and expand the rice area for the profit of Paris. But the conquerors were not suffered docilely. As early as 1912, an anti-French nationalist organization called the Viet Nam Quang Phuc Hoi (Association for the Restoration of Viet Nam) was operating from Canton...
...middle '20s, the youthful Vietnamese Communist, Ho Chi Minh, had formed his "Young Vietnamese Revolutionary League," was sending agents and propaganda south to foment trouble in Viet Nam itself. Soon Ho's products were showing up by the bushel in Diem's area. Diem himself was already a fervent nationalist, but he was shocked by the extremist cries for violence. Energetically he went to work arresting local Communists, gathering material for a 15-page anti-Communist booklet, which he distributed throughout his area. Rising rapidly to become a provincial governor at 28, Diem went to work on the French, hoping...
...Argue." The French were interested only in holding power. When Diem was invited to become Minister of the Interior, he demanded assurance that the French would agree to a strong nationalist voice in the promised new legislature. "You have a difficult character," he was told. "Take the job and don't argue so much...
Washington reporters last week got some fresh, forthright comment on a perennial problem that faces the U.S.: Red China's insistence that it be admitted to the U.N. After a half-hour visit with President John Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to Nationalist China Everett F. Drumright made some general but emphatic observations...
...standing throughout Africa. Bourguiba's standing with the West was founded on his hard-held contention that cooperation got more than bristling hostility. With his truculence last week, Bourguiba scuttled Bourguibaism. If, as a result, he managed to lever the French out of Bizerte, every rising nationalist would be encouraged to believe that defiance achieved more than the moderation Bourguiba once stood for. Either way. the West would never look at him with the same confidence again...