Word: anti-british
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...word that Bose's forces numbered some 3,000 men; others, freer to speak the truth, guess that he may have as many as 30,000 Indians from Malaya and from Jap prison camps. More important than the size of his army was one explosive fact: an armed, anti-British Indian stands today on Indian soil and calls upon his fellows to rebel against...
...will open up at all-is conscious that something is radically wrong behind the scenes. Isolationism, antiSemitism, pro-appeasement are more rampant in Boston than in any city in the land. . . . The Irish are an absolute majority and run the city from top to bottom. They are predominantly anti-British, anti-Russian, anti-Semitic and anti-New Deal. Most of it goes back to Father Coughlin's paper Social Justice, which was sold every Sunday in front of the churches and subway stations till it was suppressed...
Deputy Premier Mihai Antonescu (no kin to Premier Ion) might be one possibility; two others: Juliu Maniu, president of the National Peasant Party, and Constantin Bratianu, president of the National Liberal Party. Both Maniu and Bratianu recently wrote well-advertised letters to Premier Antonescu, denouncing the "anti-British and anti-American character you have given to the war," demanding peace before the war reaches Rumania's frontiers...
Cope's proposed solution: Englishmen should agree to form a republic, Afrikanders should accept it and agree to stay within the British Commonwealth. Anti-British Afrikanders, who outnumber and might outvote the English, were delighted. The English press was hostile. ("Sheer folly," grunted the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail...
Irresponsible Dynamics? The Economist noted a revival of anti-British sentiment in the U.S., blamed it mainly on the "all-pervading irresponsibility" of the U.S. political system. Wendell Willkie was held up for examination, with the suggestion that the dynamics of U.S. politics might force him in an anti-British direction...