Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door of Mohamed AH Jinnah's Bombay bungalow swung open. Out stepped Mohandas K. Gandhi. Eighteen days after they began, the Moslem-Hindu unity talks between the leaders of the Moslem League and the All-India Nationalist Party had ended. Result: stalemate...
Meanwhile the temper of the ultra-nationalist Army officers at the Campo Mayo barracks was rising. Word had spread that they recently met and decided to force out Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, Vice President, Minister of War, Secretary of Labor and Welfare...
...both ends and in the middle-in China, India and the Middle East (see below). These fires had been smoldering for generations, but in the case of the Middle East and India, Allied military successes that reawakened hopes of peace in Europe, aroused Arabs and Indians to press their nationalist aims while their maneuvers in the politics of the war and of the peace gave them a bargaining point with Britain...
...head of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, longtime Oberbürger-meister (Lord Mayor) of Leipzig, and Price Controller of the Reich under Brüming and again in the first years of Nazidom. A confidant of industrialists, old Reichswehr officers and big-shot civil servants, Goerdeler was linked with" a nationalist underground involving Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schacht. Goerdeler vanished on the day the Gestapo tried to pick him up. This might be a sign of the extent and organization of the anti-Nazi group. But in the dissolving nightmare of the Nazi Götterdämmerung, Goerdeler's disappearance...
...Buenos Aires, extreme nationalist organizations seized the golden opportunity to stage street demonstrations against what they termed Yankee bullying. Pro-Nazi newspapers, El Federal, Cabildo, La Fronda screamed the same note. Foreign Minister Orlando Peluffo, in the first speech he had made in his three months in office, nicely balanced a protest of good-neighborly intentions with a proud declaration of independence. Many an Argentine who had looked on the military regime with a fishy eye was now moved to support it as defender of his country's sovereignty...