Word: nacionalistas
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...sick, old Juan Sumulong; and the small radical Ganap Party, whose pro-Japanese founder is in jail. Running with Quezon was his Vice President, tall, slant-eyed Sergio Osmeña, whose popularity in the Philippines is equal to the President's. Every one of the 122 Nacionalista candidates for the Senate and the Assembly was hand-picked by Quezon, who shuffled them as a bridge player shuffles cards while the campaign went...
Aguirre's shaky Popular Front Government, weakened by dissensions among its Radical, Socialist and Communist members, retaliated by raiding extreme Rightist parties' headquarters. In offices of the openly fascist Nacionalistas, the Government-supporting press reported police had discovered plans of a secret system of revolutionary cells and papers describing a uniformed Nacionalista militia, drilled by onetime German Army Officer Brigadier Wiegold. The alarmed Government promptly issued a declaration dissolving "all apparently political organizations" formed by Rightists...
...Senate's action was a shock to Manuel Quezon and many of his Nacionalista (majority) party. When Woodrow Wilson was his good friend, "The Patrick Henry of the Philippines" had his best chance of wrenching his land unconditionally free. In '99 and after, he had shed blood for independence. Now, smoking cigarets by the chain system, he found independence under the terms set by Congress "unjust and absurd." But with racial shrewdness (he is quarter-Spanish) he decided to hold his fire until the independence commission returns to present its arguments to the Legislature. The coming regular legislative...
There exist several sorts of Mexican Ku Klux Klans. One of them is the Comite Nacionalista Anti-China de la Costa Occidental, known as the Anti-Chinese Society. This society resorted to an old law passed by the Sonora Legislature in 1919, providing that all industrial and mercantile establishments must employ 80% Mexicans. In March 1931 this law was amended to prevent the exclusion of naturalized Chinese clerks anxious to evade the law, but despite its severity no serious attempt was made to enforce it until last June...
Uncle Sam's adopted child is reaching the age of discontent. The Nacionalista party has just introduced in the Philip pine Legislature a resolution asking that America withdraw immediately from the islands and permit a six-year period or probational independence. The resolution is accompanied by the threat that if America refuses, all members of the present legislature will resign at once. The Democratic party will introduce very soon in Congress two resolutions, one asking immediate independence and the other asking that a date be fixed on which it will be granted. The probabtional idea of the Nacionalistas seems...