Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reach the polling booth into an electoral committee with supervision over the voting is morally certain in a country of the temperament of Mexico to result in outbreaks and rioting. Perhaps if the adherents of the Anti-Re-electionist party had arisen earlier in the morning than their successful Nationalist rivals, the whole complexion of the election might have been changed. Sufficient to say that the entire proceeding reflects but little credit on the success of democratic government in Mexico...
Temperamental little President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China, whose waist is as slim and mind as changeable as a woman's, changed his mind every other day last week, about the civil war he is waging with the so-called "People's Army" (TIME, Nov.11...
...long awaited proclamation the Nanking Nationalist Government clarioned last week: "The nation's hopes accompany President Chiang Kai-Shek as he goes northward to do battle...
...numbers of the so-called "People's Army" which for several months has been advancing slowly southward along the railway from the region of Peiping (once Peking). Next day the president set off by armored train for the battle area, near Chengohow. Subsequent despatches reported quaintly that "the Nationalist forces are holding their own but are not advancing at present for geographical reasons." Startling was a Japanese despatch from Hankow reporting a great "People's Army" victory in Honan Province, and streams of wounded Nationalists pouring into the city of Tengchow "the majority suffering from sword and bayonet...
...Bishop Jones had just made a speech there in which he said the U. S. flag should not be displayed in schoolrooms because of ''dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children." Bishop Jones further said that no man could worship at two altars, nationalist and Christian. Cried the Transcript to all patriots: "We are still old-fashioned enough to believe that the clergyman who advocates abandonment of the American flag and what it stands for has no place in American society, whatever his pretensions as a leader in his church. Neither do we believe...