Word: nationalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dutch or Nationalist party is not, it is true, allied with the government, but in the present crisis the Dutch population has rallied most loyally to the crown forces and is exerting every effort to suppress the disorders in the Transvaal. One convincing proof of this fact lies in the ranks of the miners themselves. Contrary to popular opinion, the vast majority of the white laborers in the mines are of British descent--only a very small percentage are Dutch--and it is this division, composed of English, Scotch, and Irish workers, that is causing the difficulty...
...over the smooth road from Kilis on Aintab. A few minutes before, we had passed the turn in the road and the stone bridge where Perry and Johnson, the American "Y" secretaries, were killed in 1920, and our chauffeur had pointed out near the road the grave of the Nationalist Turkish leader, Shahin Bey, who had deplored the deed committed by his men, and bad himself been killed almost at the game place, during the French advance...
...appointment has been the subject of much debate. In England he is little known save through his writings in "Harper's Weekly" and in other magazines. He is a nationalist as opposed to those who think that it is possible to merge American life into a commercial pool. Socially and oratorically, he may be judged as qualified to receive the ambassadorship but it has been pointed out that he has been considered of uncompromising temperament in political differences and that he could not assume an uncompromising attitude and be successful with the British foreign office as it is now constituted...