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Nationalism is a lovely word in the Arab world, Emile Bustani, a deputy of the Lebanese parliament, declared last night in the fourth Twentieth Century Week panel discussion.
Whether this is accomplished by one particular form of government or another, Dr. Bustani declared, is "relatively immaterial."
A second panelist, the Hon. Jules Kiano, Minister of Government and industry in Kenya, detailed the national aspirations of East Africans.. Disclaiming an over-riding interest in what he called "Plato's 'good life'--that man was a great philosopher, but not much of a democrat," Dr. Kiano told...
India, too, shares in the nationalistic aspirations of the world, declared a third panelist, N. B. Menon, First Secretary of the Indian Embassy in Washington. "To us, also, nationalism is a liberating, vigorous force--and not something to be ashamed of," he emphasized. A self-declared "peace-loving, neutralist man...
Horacio Godoy, a member of the faculty of law at the University of La Plata, was the only panelist to question seriously the value of nationalism. He admitted that two nationalistic forces are currently at work in Latin America, "National Marxism and the orthodox social Christian aims," but he stressed...