Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returns came in on election night last week, opposition members gravely I-told-you-soed, for Premier Bruce not only went down to defeat, but carried the entire Nationalist party with him. Late returns gave the Nationalists only 15 seats in the new Parliament to 46 for Labor. Chosen to succeed Stanley Bruce as Prime Minister of Australia was a sober middle-aged journalist and laborite, James Henry Scullin. As news of a Labor victory was broad cast, newsgatherers collected at the home of Australia's previous Labor Premier, Edward Theodore, likely candidate for the post of National Treasurer...
Meantime the Senate continued its examination of the roaring, boasting, accusing cause of the present lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger...
...most critical period in the diplomatic history of China."* Reasons for Foreign Minister Whang's forebodings were: 1) Fortnight ago, just as China was settling down to a period of comparative calm, General Chang Fa-k'uei, leader of the efficient, modernized "ironsides" division of the Nationalist Army, suddenly revolted, marched his men south through Hunan Province to join the southern rebels of Kwangsi, who have defied the authority of the Nationalist Government since last May. 2) Encouraged by thoughts of the well-armed "ironsides" division, six other Nationalist generals joined them. 3) General Ho Ying...
Last July two divisions of ragged Nationalist troops swept through Tao-chow-ting on shaggy Chinese horses, burning, shooting. Three thousand fear-crazed Mohammedans were killed. Hundreds of other Moslems, fleeing along the Hsiat-sang valley toward Tibet were shot down by Tibetan frontier guards...
...over on them. There is little doubt that Soviet Russia was using the railway as a political instrument to China's detriment, and that Soviet officials of the railway were utilizing their offices as headquarters for Communist propaganda tending to undermine the authority of the Nationalist government. Documentary evidence exists to prove this. And it has not been so very long since the United States, on less provocation, engaged in a nationwide round-up of Reds, real or alleged, and deported those they did not put in jail...