Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalist China boycotted the session...
After reading your interesting article [on nationalist growing pains in Africa, Aug. 31], I reaffirmed my belief that Africa should be governed by the black man. No one can supply the leadership needed for a nation if that person is not truly a native. England and the rest of Europe had better wake up to the fact that colonization is long since past. No tea-sipping, drab Englishman sitting in London or Johannesburg, regardless of his vast knowledge and experience, knows all the problems and needs of the African. NORMAN EDWARD ROURKE Tulsa...
...Watched." Diminutive (5 ft.) Mehdi ben Barka has been in rebellion against one thing or another since early youth. A brilliant mathematics student, he was tabbed at 14 by one of his teachers as "first in his class; mixes with nationalists: to be watched." The youngest man to sign the Istiqlal independence manifesto of 1944, Ben Barka showed such talent at organizing and publicizing Morocco's fight for independence that nationalist French newsmen dubbed him "the Moroccan Goebbels...
Greater or Little. A leader with a taste for loud ties but moderate policies, Issa prodded the Italians into their promise of early independence. But then Haji Mohammed Hussein, an oldtime nationalist rabble-rouser whose oratory once made Somalis whip off their scarves in frenzy and fling them into the air, arrived back in Mogadiscio from four years' self-imposed exile as one of Nasser's Cairo broadcasters. Almost at once Haji Mohammed formed a Greater Somali League to rival Issa's Somali Youth League, and charged that Issa favored a Little Somalia, confined to Italian Somaliland...
...only when Kowloon City's rip-roaring illegal activities spilled over too flagrantly onto the island itself some two miles away, have the British tried-not too successfully-to enforce the law there. In 1947 the British tried to clear out thousands of Kowloon squatters, but the Nationalist Chinese then ruling the mainland disputed British authority, correctly pointing out that the original lease provided for Chinese administration of Kowloon City. To reinforce their complaints Chinese demonstrators burned down the British consulate in Canton...