Word: governance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What the Nationalist stands for is freedom-freedom to govern India with an Indian Government subject to an Indian Parliament, freedom to maintain a truly Indian army, officered and manned by Indians, and freedom for India to express herself as India and not as a semi-Anglicized Asiatic dependency. These aims are not incompatible with the existence of India within the British Commonwealth of nations, and, indeed, that ill-defined expression "Dominion Status" defines the present aims of the great bulk of Nationalists...
...stated that the appointment of " France's only soldier-statesman " to govern Syria has a threefold purpose...
...armed minority, and the majority were glad. We Italians saw that, and so the dictatorship of Italy was taken by the Fascisti, a minority armed with force, and the majority, the great majority, almost all the people of Italy, were relieved and satisfied. They did not want to govern themselves. They wanted someone to take power and govern for them, and when I stepped up and said I would do it, the people of Italy sighed a sigh work, leaving me and my council to attend to the common business. If I don't do it, the Italians will...
...constitution which has just been signed is a signal victory of democracy over the would-be autocracy that the King wished to impose on the country. In it Egypt is defined as a "free and independent State" with an hereditary monarchical constitutional Government, and the throne is reserved to the members of the family of Muhammed Ali, the founder of the present dynasty. Education is made free and obligatory for both sexes. All power is derived from the people and the legislative power is to be exercised conjointly by King and Parliament. The King and the Court did not, however...
...reported last week, Archbishop Zepliak and Monsignor Butchkavitch, of the Roman Catholic Church, were tried for "resisting the government." Both were condemned to death. A storm of protest arose from govern- ments and other organizations all over the world...