Word: nationalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conqueror" Chiang Kai-shek whose nationalist armies recently swept across one-half of China, (TIME, Sept. 29, 1926 et req.) returned last week, a man abased and fallen, to his home and birthplace, the little village of Fenghwa, 100 miles south of Shanghai...
Suddenly the newspapers told of the acquittal of three young men, reactionary Nationalists, who had been on trial since February for killing a man and a child, during a brawl between Nationalists and Social Democrats in the Province of Bergenland. The guilt of the three young Nationalists had seemed a moral certainty; but Bergenland is so strongly Nationalist that many feared their conviction might cause riots there. When it was announced last week that the youths had been acquitted, Bergenland was quiet, smug; but Vienna, where Communists and Social Democrats vastly outnumber Nationalists, burst into demonstrations of irritation which verged...
...family connection Kevin O'Higgins stood rooted in the very fibre of the new State. His father, Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, a distinguished surgeon, was a man who simultaneously championed the highest nationalist aspirations of Irishmen and defied their tendency to base, rabble violence. The result was that a band of armed incendiaries murdered him in his own home on the night...
...appeal as follows to the 71-year-old Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich in Paris (TIME, April 19, 1926) : "Monseigneur: The Russian Congress, which unites all the patriots aspiring to the re-establishment of the Russian nation, acclaims in the person of your Imperial Highness the foreordained representative of the nationalist idea as well as the glorious supreme chief of the army and defender of the fatherland since the first days of our Calvary...
Suchowfu, 400 miles from Peking, was the auspicious scene upon which this alliance was struck up. Came the Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 4) whose armies, originally one with the Hankow "Communist" forces, have now conquered the Southern half of China. Then, amid cheers and bugle blasts, came the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-an abundant fellow, massive, barrel-sized, jowled like a tiger, and last week unshaven, scowling, imperious in the pride of his new power...