Word: factionalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alba, an ardent monarchist, might have been expected to stick at his post so long as he could do anything to help Pretender Don Juan de Bourbon, who has been waiting in Switzerland for the call to the throne. Apparently negotiations between Spain's moderate, non-Falangist faction and the Don Juanists had broken down. And Britain's Labor Government had shown no disposition to back a monarchist restoration in Spain...
...native faction which calls itself the Indonesian Republic declared war on the Dutch, Eurasians and Amboinese (warlike Amboina Islanders, many of whom have joined the Netherlands Army). Weapons (according to Indonesian People's Army headquarters): "All kinds of firearms, also poison, poisoned darts and arrows, all methods of arson and . . . wild animals, as for instance snakes...
...Jesuits, then at the University of London. At 17 he was already a Fascist. While brawling in the streets he was cut from mouth to ear, and he carries the scar to this day. He joined Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist group, later broke away to create a faction of his own. Whenever he needed credentials of any sort, he claimed British citizenship...
Uomo Qualunque. Many millions of Italians regard the country's tangled politics and its faction-shaded parties (six are represented in the Government) with disgust and fear. Symptomatically, Italy's most widely read topical weekly is Rome's three-lire Uomo Qualunque (Common Man or Man-in-the-Street). Its founder and editor: Guglielmo Giannini, a theatrical producer, never a politician...
...lined up its own general staff: Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, 35, ex-metal worker and leader of the union's far-left wing; Vice President Richard Truman Frankensteen, 38, now running for mayor of Detroit; Walter Reuther, 38, boss of the union's left-of-center faction; and President Rolland Jay Thomas, 45, balance wheel between the warring Reuther-Addes factions...