Word: rightist
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...Government was expected to include more socialistic elements. But the power was not altogether within the Government: there are rightist Poles in London without official status who pull influential strings, and the rightists in the Government have in the past exercised strength out of proportion to their number. Most visible representative of this group is President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz...
...Where will she fight?" they asked. But in the neighboring capitals of Peru and Chile there was a certain uneasiness. Peruvian imperialists and rightist Chileans sensed in General Peñaranda's Washington visit a bid for a Bolivian port on the Pacific (Arica on Chile's northern boundary). They recalled the poetic prayer addressed to Vice President Wallace during his recent visit by the La Paz daily Ultima Hora: "Oh, Henry Wallace, Prophet and Redeemer, Philosopher and friend of man . . . the oldest country of the South now hears the voice of Hirakocha, the God of the Andes...
...cleavage with Russia was a personal tragedy. Opposition Poles in Britain and the U.S.* have attacked him ever since he defied Polish tradition and signed a Polish-Russian pact in July 1941, followed it with a friendship declaration in December 1941. A patriot, liberal enough to be anathema to rightist emigrés, Sikorski has showed great political courage in trying to deal with Russia. For a time, he succeeded so well that Stalin once called him the only Polish leader with whom the Kremlin could deal. But pressure inside & outside his Government has confounded him. Emigr...
...reporter had posed a familiar question about General Charles de Gaulle's Rightist connections (which have worried some, pleased others). But it transformed M. Guigui into a dynamo of sudden eloquence...
...Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist who helped to prepare the way for the U.S. landings, once had interests in the Fascist-edited Parisian newspaper Le Jour. The Fighting French denounce him as a onetime member of the Cagoulards, an extreme rightist society which is still potent in North Africa...