Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then up jumped Charles Bertrand, ardent Nationalist. He roared: "Have we reached the point when we must choose between bankruptcy and M. Caillaux? Bankruptcy would be bet ter, for the reinstatement of M. Caillaux shows moral bankruptcy, which is infinitely the worse...
...Andre Maginot, ex-Minister of War in the Poincaré Cabinet and leader of the Nationalist Opposition, said that the Government's proposal was accept able to his party, but that it could not tolerate M. Caillaux's presence in the Cabinet. "There still is in this country," he asseverated, "too great grief, too many mourners, too many wounded men for us to tolerate that...
...this brilliant Jew was chosen from among a host of hereditary British statesmen to represent the Emperor in India, the highest and most responsible administrative position which the Crown has to offer. During his term of office, he has had to contend with Gandhi, Das and other nationalist leaders; and, in spite of being entirely out of sympathy with the Montague-Chelmsford reforms (progressive Indianization and autonomy within the Commonwealth), he has proved himself a patient, able and sagacious pilot in one of the most threatening storms that have beset the ship of India...
...Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), a Hungarian Jew. Dr. Herzl negotiated fruitlessly with the Porte (Turkey) for a Palestine charter. He tried Britain, was offered sites on the Sinai Peninsula and in the East African Protectorate; but both these offers were rejected through the strong opposition of the ultra-nationalist Zionists who naturally coveted Palestine...
...Soledad, the crisis became acute. The nationalist Mexican Church was not proving an overnight success. President Calles observed all, entered upon the scene, padlocked La Soledad. As Lent ended, Patriarch Joaquín had no church...