Word: nationalistice
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Those who knew their Canadian history could hardly believe their ears: Henri Bourassa advised French Canadians, when there was no candidate for the isolationist Bloc Populaire, to vote for the socialist C.C.F. On second thought, Canadians realized that the advice was not so surprising after all. Henri Bourassa simply believed...
A fine athlete, he distinguished himself in boxing, fencing and track. A good scholar, he wrote books on military affairs (one of which praised Germany). After the manner of all military biographers, his associates say that he was a good soldier, a strict disciplinarian who was liked by his subordinates...
For two decades nationalistic Slovaks pressed for autonomy, resented the Czechs. Now, Slovaks generally dislike the Germans and welcome liberation-even by the Red Army. But Slovak nationalists have no more love for the Czechs, no more liking for a government centralized in Prague, than they had between wars.
Particularly, he did not care for that dynamic bundle of energy and irritation, Lord Beaverbrook.* At this point, Churchill must have bristled. Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, is many things to the Prime Minister-a friend with a flair and dash otherwise lacking in the men around Churchill; a tough, nationalistic...
Brave Old World. Carl Becker (professor emeritus of history at Cornell) goes along with Joseph Jones insofar as his long-term hopes are concerned. But he cautions his readers to remember that things move slowly, that the world will not change radically with the defeat of Hitler and Japan. The...