Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equally shrill is the Nationalist Independence Rally, once headed by Marcel Chaput, 45, a former government biochemist. Several months ago, Chaput embarked on a 34-day Gandhi-like fast and raised $100,000 for the separatist movement that he confidently predicts will win out before Canada reaches its centennial of Confederation in 1967. Last week Dr. Chaput drew angry cries of treason after he issued a warning to Queen Elizabeth, who plans to visit Canada next October. "Some of my people," he said, "are ready to let her know-and brutally-that she is no longer welcome in French Canada...
Last Monday was, by modern standards, a reasonably eventful day. The House passed the Civil Rights Bill, Nationalist China broke diplomatic relations with France, and white students boycotted a school in Alabama...
...AFRICA. On Zanzibar, a ragtag horde of nationalist and pro-Communist Africans overthrew the government, slaughtered hundreds of Arabs. In East Africa, soldiers of the Tanganyikan, Ugandan and Kenyan armies mutinied. In the Congo, a guerrilla band led by proCommunists seized part of Kwilu province. Across the volatile continent, the U.S. was watching uneasily for new outbursts...
...tried to mousetrap De Gaulle by urging Nationalist China not to break relations with France immedi ately, in the hope of embarrassing De Gaulle by tagging him with a "two-China" label acceptable to neither Peking nor Taipei. This effort failed when a top French spokesman said flatly, "This is not a two-China policy-we recognize Taipei as the government...
...much about the man as about his deed. "Both the weakness and the greatness of Charles de Gaulle," observed the New York Times's James Reston, "is that he's so sure that he is right." The Christian Science Monitor called him "a headstrong and shrewd nationalist, deliberately acting against the community of great powers that has enforced the peace since World War II." Said the New York Daily News: "It has often been noticed that when a great man makes a mistake, it is usually a great mistake that he makes...