Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoulders and draped him with garlands of flowers after the Governor's announcement in the Legislative Council. All that night, green-shirted members of his Tanganyika African National Union danced in the streets and sang party hymns. For once, colonial officials did not need to fear a fervent nationalist display, for Nyerere has won the confidence of most Tanganyika whites, who admire the patience and moderation with which he has conducted the campaign for self-government...
...China policy recommendations do not, as you correctly report [Nov. 30], meet with the approval of either the Red Chinese or the Nationalist Chinese. I have been expressing them publicly since 1954, and I believe an increasingly large number of Americans hold the same opinions...
...example, you report that a "glacial silence" followed my opening remark at my Taiwan dinner meeting with Chinese Nationalist leaders, and then you say that I returned to Tokyo the next day, as though that were the reason. This is untrue and misleading. As I intended, my remark relaxed the atmosphere and we had a cordial discussion. I returned to Tokyo the next day to fulfill a predetermined schedule of work for my committee...
Southward to Fortune. The 14 million Overseas Chinese living in the area they call Nanyang, the Southern Ocean, looked desperately for a way out of the rain of repressive laws. Some turned to Red China and some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was at stake. The matter was hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy...
...Endeared. The hua-chiao are often a headache not only to the countries they live in but to the rulers of Nationalist and Red China as well. Formosa, needing friends in the Far East, has friendly feelings for countries that continue to recognize it, such as the Philippines, Thailand and South Viet Nam, and it dares not recklessly rush to the support of the Overseas Chinese in every local squabble. Last week Formosa was engaged in a long, embittering dispute with Manila about the disposition of 2,700 Chinese who have overstayed their visas in the Philippines...