Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played tackle at the University of Tennessee, got a law degree from Yale in 1927 and came home to be a successful corporation lawyer in Chattanooga. In 1939 he won a special House election and went to Washington, where he was a fervent liberal Democrat and a devoted inter nationalist who attracted some small notice by his support of the dreamy Atlantic Union plan that proposed a constitutional federation of free nations. But mostly, he was distinguished by his silence...
Still fiercely nationalist, Rumania is winning its own measure of independence from Moscow. Under Soviet plans for COMECON, the faltering Communist answer to the Common Market, Rumania was supposed to concentrate on growing foodstuffs for the rest of Eastern Europe, thus stunting its own economic growth. Refusing to be a mere "garden for the Socialist countries," Party Leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej insisted on developing Rumania's own natural resources. Bucharest's feud with the Kremlin is still going strong, perhaps the first time on record that a Communist country has publicly stood up to Big Brother...
...Argentines talk heatedly about oil. At one time, in a burst of nationalist fervor, foreign firms were forbidden from prospecting-only to have the government monopoly (Y.P.F.) do so poorly that most of Argentina's unfavorable trade balance came from importing oil. President Arturo Frondizi allowed foreign oilmen back in 1958. They have saved the nation some $170 million a year in imports by more than doubling oil production to 96 million bbl. annually. But there is also a feeling among many local Latins that contracts with foreign oilmen are too generous...
...Quincy House the next morning some seminar members are eating breakfast, and the topic of conversation is the same. "Herman Kahn does not want war. These people who call a man a war-monger merely because he is willing to face reality..." General Wu of Nationalist China searches for the words to describe such people, fails, concludes impatiently, "Childish, absolutely childish...
...impending conference of Baathist leaders from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and "certain other countries" that he refused to name. The announced purpose: to seek a "new political strategy basis for future activity in the Middle East." Not to be outdone, Nasser called for a giant rally of all Arab nationalist movements, to elect a supreme council...