Word: offshoots
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European nationalism in the mid-20th Century had reached a pitch which forced Jews to react with a desperate nationalism of their own. But between them and a Palestine refuge stood another offshoot of European chauvinism, the awakened nationalism of the Arab states and their new instrument, the Arab League. Only superficially was the current Zionist issue the same as before the war. On both sides the pressures had become many times as intense and explosive...
This global mission will come under the aegis of Evangelist Johnson's own newly formed offshoot, Youth for Christ International, which already boasts a payroll of 18 employes, including six field men whose salaries average $2,500 a year...
...Teheran a Government spokesman announced that Armenians and others in Azerbaijan had rebelled against the Government; the insurgents were being armed from Russian trucks; the situation was "dangerous and painful." Leaders of the uprising were members of the new, separatist Democratic Party, an offshoot of the old Communist Tudeh Party...
...undeclared and limited war - a military offshoot of the unity negotiations between the Central Government and the Communists. But at any time the war might become open and unlimited...
...outrages" in Palestine, carefully planned by a "very considerable organization among the Jewish community." Hall did not identify the organization. But two groups, both disavowed by the Jewish Agency, were almost certainly involved: the strongly militant underground Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) and its still more aggressive offshoot, a gang of gunmen who called themselves "Israel's Freedom Fighters." Both were wellarmed, experienced guerrillas whose credo was: the time for talk is past...