Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Civil Disobedience," "Passive Resistance" have long been favorite watchwords of Saint Gandhi. By them he means to break the power of British rule, through refusal to pay taxes, refusal to purchase British goods* Last week, eager to put his plans into effect, he received a committee of the Indian Nationalist Congress, asked that he be appointed Dictator of Disobedience and given a council of war with sole power to say where, when, and in what manner "civil disobedience" was to start. The Nationalist congressmen, who venerate Saint Gandhi with almost religious fervor, but do not always do what he wants...
...Shanghai, bandits broke all the Chinese traditions of kidnaping, abducted the hitherto-scorned girl babes of wealthy China merchants. The New Nationalist Government's recent decree, making daughters as well as sons heirs of their fathers, has also given them ransom value...
...What words can we add to this great deed?" cried the Chairman of Jugoslavia's secretive Naroda Odbrana, a nationalist organization famed for desperate deeds, and in which Princip was a leader. "What shall we say of Princip? NOTHING! His glorious memory can be most highly honored by silence...
...peace was only partial. Scarcely had last week's train completed its run than all the Chinese employes of the C. E. R. went on strike, claiming that vigorous Comrade Rudy had unjustifiably discharged 300 Chinese machinists. In Nanking, officials of the Nationalist Government examined minutely the wording of the Khabarovsk Treaty, started angrily at the number of concessions to Russia to which abject Manchurians had agreed announced that they would not ratify the Chino-Soviet Treaty, summoned placid Mr. Mo for a good talking...
...clear perspective of hindsight he saw that it was not only wrong for him as an official of the Chinese Nationalist Government to have paid a camel-load of silver dollars to a bandit, but also that it would be morally wrong to allow the bandit to continue to exist. Governor Hu firmly resolved to exterminate the fellow...