Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the liberals out, hopes ran high that the United Party would at long last be in a position to form a coalition with disgruntled Nationalist moderates led by Finance Minister Dr. Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges, who was thought to be fed up with Verwoerd's rigid extremism. The hopes were short-lived. At week's end Verwoerd and Dönges mounted the platform together to address a political rally in Worcester, Cape province. After both agreed that full apartheid is the only way for South Africa, Dönges said pointedly: "This is my answer...
...Seek Ye First ..." At its best, the new African leadership has an impressive intellectuality. Kenya's whites are only too conscious of the ability of young Tom Mboya. It is at the second and third levels of leadership that the nationalist movements lack strength. One result is that even the most Western-minded of the African politicians feel that they are operating under crash conditions, and freedom in Africa does not necessarily promise democracy. One Nigerian said to me: "You in America get into a war, and you don't have much democracy either...
...autobiographical. Examples: 1) Like his hero. Author Stuart left Ireland in 1940 and spent most of the war years as a lecturer in Berlin; 2) Stuart was once highly praised by W. B. Yeats, once married to the adopted daughter of Maude Gonne, the Egeria of Yeats's nationalist literary salon; his Cassidy has an Irish wife and admits once knowing Yeats "quite well." At one point in the story Cassidy finds a cache of Irish whisky; Author Stuart's style resembles it-warming in small doses only, smoky and unpredictable. Where Eva moves to her promised land...
...among the least-educated, lowest-paid Negroes jammed into big-city slums from Harlem to Los Angeles. Muhammad's virulent anti-Americanism and antiSemitism, plus his elite corps of dark-suited, shaven-polled young "honor guards," has lifted him well beyond the run-of-the-street crackpot Negro nationalist groups. The Moslems are of rising concern to respectable Negro civic leaders, to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to police departments in half a dozen cities...
...Among the top-ranking Xegro villains of the Moslems and African Nationalist fringe groups: U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche, who won a Nobel Prize for making peace between Israel and the Arabs, hence is condemned as "the George Washington of Israel...