Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warned Minister of Transport Barend Schoeman. Though the government is finally releasing 1,200 political prisoners detained since the riots without charges, South Africa's men of apartheid show no intention of changing their course. In fact, as soon as the Congo riots broke out last week, the Nationalist press briskly drew the lesson: this is what happens when the white man treats the black as an equal...
...Kennedy feels that his Catholicism makes him pretty much immune to any suspicion of "softness" toward Communism. Accordingly, he can take the political risks of proposing to "bring the Chinese into the nuclear test ban talks at Geneva," declaring himself "wholly opposed" to any U.S. commitment to defend the Nationalist islands of Quemoy and Matsu. He also has Connecticut Congressman Chester Bowles as his principal foreign policy adviser. U.S. Ambassador to India under Harry Truman, and a conspicuous liberal, Bowles advocates a "two Chinas" policy (i.e., the U.S. should cease to recognize the Nationalist Chinese government as the legitimate government...
Things were a little awkward from the very start, as young King Baudouin arrived in the Congo to celebrate and declare its independence. On the way into Leopoldville from the airport, an exuberant nationalist pressed close to his open limousine, grabbed the King's sword from beside him, and flourished it above his head before the police could move in and pommel him away. Later, as the King entered the new parliamentary chamber, where Ghanaians in togas mingled with bemedaled Western ambassadors, the Belgians shouted, "Vive le Roi!" The Congolese Assemblymen, preferring to cheer the new nation...
While on the way home, Ike had worked over his TV speech to the nation this week. The tenor of the speech was that Ike felt that his trip was considerably better than "pretty good." U.S. relations with the Philippines, Nationalist China and Korea were "greatly strengthened." As for Japan, in spite of the "outrageous conduct of a violent and disorderly minority," he had been assured that the people were, in general, anxious to welcome...
...idea of Russian bases in Cuba is "bunk-comic-opera stuff." The Kremlin is too smart for that since such bases would be indefensible. Communists in Latin America are concealing direct ties to Moscow, hammering at the U.S. as "the colossus of the North" through nationalist, anti-imperialist propaganda themes laid down by the 21st Communist Party Congress at Moscow in early...