Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India his regime has been marked by firm yet temperate dealings with the followers of Gandhi, who are ever fomenting their "passive revolution" into an attempted boycott of Western civilization. His reply to the Nationalist demand for an immediate revision of the Constitution was: "The re-examination of the Constitution may take place when the British...
...took no notice of the fact that three Nationalist Cabinet members had resigned as a protest against the pacts (TIME, Nov. 2). He "carried on" with a "rump" cabinet and drew fire from the Socialist Vorwaerts as follows: "It is naive indeed for the present Government's supporters to behave as though nothing had happened and Luther must remain the eternal Chancellor of the German Republic...
Suddenly came action abrupt and typically decisive from the Monarchists, who abhor Locarno and all its works. At a caucus of the Nationalist Reichstag deputies a resolution was adopted condemning "the results of the Locarno treaties at present available...
...Nationalist members of the Cabinet (three of them) interpreted this resolution as a party command to resign and forthwith presented their resignations to Chancellor Luther. It was felt that this development would inevitably lead to serious delays in ratifying the treaties. The Monarchist press was headlining: "The Pact is dead...
Thus the former leader severed his connection abruptly, precipitately. And what was the cause? For the past few months the Centre has been tending more and more to the Nationalist Right. In particular it supported the high tariff proposed by the Nationalists. But Herr Wirth has grown closer and closer to the Centre's former allies, the Socialists. On one occasion he remarked: "The enemy stands at the right. If it ever comes to a struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat I desire to give notice that I shall be on the side of the proletariat...