Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this country to make a study of social and philanthropic institutions as well as educational and business methods. Speaking through an interpreter in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Dr. Fuad who was formerly Turkish Minister of Health and Child Welfare, described the work being conducted by the Nationalist government along hygienic and educational lines. When asked to comment on affairs in Smyrna, Dr. Fuad said he had nothing to say on the subject...
Speaking of the accomplishments of the Turkish Health Department, Dr. Fuad outlined the plans, some of which are already being carried out, of the Nationalist government in the prevention and cure of disease. "Preventative measures," he said, "cover promotion of vaccination as a means of restraining contagious diseases sanitation, a system of committees of public health, and the employment of government health officers who visit the small villages and towns lecturing on hygiene as well as taking the place of and doing the work of travelling physicians...
Discussing the system of national public education in Turkey, Dr. Fuad said, "The plans of the Nationalist government include the establishment of public schools for both children and adults. There are very few teachers at present, however, so that before the schools can be started instructors must be trained. In each of the nine divisions of Turkey a teaching college has been founded to educate the teachers. These teachers will go out to the little villages as soon as they are ready, but their duties will not be wholly in the intellectual line. They will be moral and social leaders...
...What the Nationalist stands for is freedom-freedom to govern India with an Indian Government subject to an Indian Parliament, freedom to maintain a truly Indian army, officered and manned by Indians, and freedom for India to express herself as India and not as a semi-Anglicized Asiatic dependency. These aims are not incompatible with the existence of India within the British Commonwealth of nations, and, indeed, that ill-defined expression "Dominion Status" defines the present aims of the great bulk of Nationalists...
...policy of the British Parliament is to increase the "association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire." The British and Nationalist aims, therefore, differ only in method. The British policy is a progressive scheme of Indianization; the Nationalists want a revolutionary and not an evolutionary change...