Word: supernationalist
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...been in power for 25 years, held a comfortable 54 seats in the 95-member Parliament. Chief opposition to his United National Party was an unlikely coalition called the People's United Front, comprised of such uneasy partners as a Buddhist party, a Trotskyite group and the supernationalist Ceylon Freedom Party. The coalition demanded the nationalization of all tea and rubber plantations still in British hands, and the ejection of British forces from the new Commonwealth nation of Ceylon. (The naval base at Trincomalee and the air base at Negombo are the last remaining British bases between the Middle...
Under lackluster Dr. Hubert Ney, 62, the pro-German Christian Democrats (an offshoot of Konrad Adenauer's West German C.D.U.) rolled up 25.4% of the vote. The Social Democrats took a beating (14.3% of the vote), trailing far behind the supernationalist right-wing Democrats (24.2%), under ex-Nazi Heinrich Schneider. The big surprise was that tubby little "Jojo" Hoffmann, the Francophile ex-Premier, cornered a solid 21.8% (and 13 seats in Parliament) for his Christian People's Party. Hoffmann's supporters, who favor continued economic collaboration between the Saar and France, cannily reminded middle-class Saarlanders that...
...adjusted some of the details of his authoritarian rule to popular preferences. He was even willing to consider the necessities of hemispheric diplomacy. After the U.S. and Great Britain recalled their ambassadors last fortnight, Perón did not fly into a supernationalist rage. He cooed, and turned the U.S.-British pressure to good account in his feud with Perlinger...
Argentina's Brigadier General Luis Cesar Perlinger, eagle-beaked, supernationalist Minister of the Interior, swung a haymaker at able U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour. Said Perlinger: "It is not possible to smile at an Ambassador of a country which does not maintain relations with the owner of the house. I am the first to assume an angry face toward such a man, and every Argentine must do the same...
Pertinax, enigmatic political writer for the Echo de Paris adds his voice to the mighty rumblings on the rumpus in the Ruhr. As a supernationalist he favors the policy of the Government, but deprecates their inclination to weaken. "There should not be an evacuation time table nor an evacuation price list...
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