Word: anti-english
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Salisbury said the colonists often conflated Christianity and civilization, although American Indian converts to Christianity still engaged in warfare and other anti-English activities...
...kragdadigheid. He was known as "Jackboot John" when he served as Justice Minister under his National Party predecessor, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (who was stabbed by a demented clerk on the floor of the South African Parliament in 1966). The son of a Transvaal farmer, Vorster in his youth joined anti-English Afrikaner nationalist movements, becoming a "general" in what was believed to be a terrorist wing of the so-called Ox Wagon Guard, a pro-Nazi movement. His militant opposition to the Allied war effort cost him 20 months of internment. To this day Vorster maintains that what...
MOST French-Canadian films are never exported, just shown in Quebec, where they appeal to Quebec nationalists presumably because they are made in Quebec, not because they capture a distinct national experience. My Uncle Antoine takes an anti-English stance, founded in economics not in race, when it depicts an asbestos mine near Black Lake, Quebec, where the managers are English and deliver their rebukes to the French-speaking workers in a language the workers cannot understand. At Christmas time, Jutra shows the villagers' holiday frivolity instantly transformed by the mine owner's two-faced distribution of little bags...
...such tribunes of the people as Taft and Vandenberg, such bulwarks of our freedom as the Hearst press, all bound together by the awful fear that war will serve as an excuse for the further extension of governmental control over business. These are people who are paying for the anti-English drive, not because they care a damn about American democracy, but because they will benefit by English defeat and will get to power through...
...never set last week on the British Empire's internal troubles. Eire-which despite its rugged individualism is still a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations-seethed with anti-English feeling (see col. 2). Canada, in the throes of an important election, lost her Governor General (see p. 27). In the Union of South Africa former Prime Minister James Hertzog, who recently defended Adolf Hitler's policies and, like the Führer, blamed the Versailles Treaty for the war, worked to convert the Union into a republic, urged a separate peace with Germany. Prime Minister...