Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Maurice Healy, 64, brother of Timothy Healy, Governor General of the Irish Free State, in Cork. He was an independent Nationalist member from Cork in the British House of Commons...
Raymond Poincare, Nationalist Premier of France: " It was reported that I, at a session of the French Academy, walked arm in arm with the Socialist-author, Anatole France. At a doorway I said gallantly: ' After you. The Government yields to genius.' The great ironist accepted my tribute...
Early in the week heavy pressure was brought to bear on Premier Poincareé to call two or three new classes to the French Army to prepare for a possible conflict with the growing Nationalist forces of Germany. André Tardieu, leader of the Clemenceau following in the Chamber of Deputies, was foremost in this move, with a threat to overthrow the Ministry if M. Poincaré did not comply...
...stated that a billion is deposited in Great Britain, a billion in the U. S. and a third of a billion divided between Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden. Part of these sums would have been immediately available for financing a Reich-wide Nationalist Revolution. This also the French General Staff had in mind. The failure of the Ludendorff-Hitler putsch called a halt in French military measures, as the reports from a Germany in convulsion were so contradictory that even the French General Staff, with its very complete spy-system, could make little of the events...
...young Australian Premier, twice wounded in the War, is the political hero of the Antipodes. Although a Cambridge graduate, he owned a dry goods firm and belonged to the Labor Party. The War came. He founded the Nationalist Party, fought with the Royal Fusiliers, went to Geneva, startled the League of Nations by a brilliant plea for disarmament, returned to Australia, succeeded (when ex-Premier Hughes had failed) in effecting a coalition against the Labor Party, became Premier, remained young...