Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote he: "In the eyes of more than half the world we are making an exhibition of ourselves in the Philippines. . . . Conditions exist there which are at present nothing short of scandalous. . . . The attempt was made to impose the nationalist ideal upon a group of peoples having no need for it ... on the highly unsound assumption that what was good for us was good for the Malays. . . . While the Spaniards killed the Filipinos with cruelty, we are reducing them to nothingness with kindness. . . . The American Governor General of the Philippines is one of the hopeless creations in the whole...
...vacation, caused the grave and startling news from India to be received with curious apathy. Evidently carnivorous Church of Englanders still view the menaces of vegetarian Hindus with the customary contempt. The Daily Herald, party organ of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, recalled that during 1929 the Indian Nationalists demanded "dominion status," and complacently alluded to the 1930 demand for Pur an Swaraj (Complete Independence) as "an academic change involving no immediate consequences." In Manhattan, Chairman Sailendranath Ghose of the Indian Nationalist Association of America talked boldly of arming a million Indians for revolution but had no theory...
Quick on the rebound is the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kaishek. Less than a month ago the Nationalists were fighting desperately for their very existence; no one knew who would rule China from one day to the next. Last week, their authority temporarily reestablished, the Nationalists dusted their jackets, straightened their horn-rimmed spectacles, strutted again. Cocky Cheng Ting ("C. T.") Wang, Nationalist Foreign Minister, blandly disregarding riot and rebellion, announced that with the first of the year he would abolish the right of extraterritoriality in China, i.e. the right of foreign residents in China to be tried...