Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women picketers stood in the street, cheered on by Gandhi-capped bystanders, shrilly squealing Nationalist songs. Police, swinging heavy six-foot bamboo lathis, charged. Picketers clenched their teeth, took the blows as they fell. Injured were rushed off to hospitals, other pickets took their place, the singing recommenced, the police charged again, and so on through the day. By nightfall 250 people were badly injured, 400 arrested. Out of a registered electorate of 60,000, only 1,473 succeeded in recording their votes...
...central Chinese "National Government," recognized by the U. S., headed by stalwart little President Chiang Kaishek, jubilant mobs hailed the new status of Peking as meaning that "their" troops were taking it over. News extras said that Manchuria's Chang had accepted the rank of "vice commander of the Nationalist army & navy"?that is to say, he had climbed off his neutral fence, proclaimed himself a 100% Nationalist...
...Indian delegates of varying physical and political complexion who have accepted invitations to Britain's October Round Table Conference on India were announced in London last week. Notably absent was the name of any follower of St. Gandhi, any member of his Indian National Congress. The Nationalist leaders, realizing that adoption of any part of their program by the Round Table Conference is virtually impossible, primly withstood British blandishment, refused to attend...
Superficially, the makeup of the conference seemed to live up to the British Government's description of it: "A representative gathering of all shades of Indian opinion." If there is no real Nationalist on the list, reporters stumbling among Hindu patronymics found near-Nationalists in the persons of Dr. B. S. Moonje and Chirravoori Yajneswara Chintamani. Both still vociferously plead for Indian administration of Indian affairs, but both have abandoned St. Gandhi's demand for an independent India...
...Give to Gandhi's party (Nationalist) "an adequate but not majority representation" at the Indian Round Table Conference scheduled for October in London...