Word: nationalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black-&-Tans, those hard-bitten ex-Army men who were sent to Ireland in 1920 to shoot it out with the Nationalist guerrillas. Irish County Inspector Hannay (John Lodge) and British Captain Wiltshire of the Royal Intelligence Corps (John Loder) both dedicated to preserving British law & order, have captured a pair of important emissaries from Sinn Fein headquarters but their lorry is hijacked by a mysterious local Sinn Fein chieftain named Commandant O'Dea (Niall MacGinnis). Neither suspects that O'Dea is the high spirited young brother of Maureen Elliot (Antoinette Cellier), the Irish girl with whom both...
...want food now, and France cannot let them cross the mountains. Fascist propaganda, though not yet as serious in Morocco as in Tunisia, is a deep worry to French Moroc can officials. Shrewd diplomacy on the part of General Charles Nogues, present Resident General of Morocco, has reduced a nationalist Arab league known as the Jeunes Marocains to comparative impotence. But should the Tuaregs go over the passes, they might easily kindle a major rebellion...
Five years ago potent Publisher Alfred Hugenberg, at that time head of an ardent Nationalist Party, was picked by many a wiseacre as the likeliest man to stop the march to power of Adolf Hitler. Publisher Hugenberg was wiser. Even before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Alfred Hugenberg prudently dissolved his own party, loudly and publicly joined the Nazis. Herr Hitler was grateful, for a while, but last week Alfred Hugenberg was forced to resign from his last important job: director of UFA, Germany's largest motion picture company...
...succeed himself again next year, the General may be able to start his civil war near home. President Vargas is most unpopular in Sao Paulo, which last week saw the first real chance in seven years to squeeze back into power through a brawl in Rio Grande. Strongly nationalist President Vargas is unpopular also in such States as Para and Amazonas, whose ambitious plans to import cheap Japanese labor for their rubber plantations the President halted with his 1934 immigration law. Under its terms, immigration from any nation is restricted in any year to 2% of its total immigrants...
...city of Ponce, across the island from San Juan, Nationalists applied for a permit to parade as a protest against the imprisonment of eight of their leaders, including Chief Firebrand Pedro Albizu y Campos, who was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta penitentiary after conviction for sedition.* Mayor Ormes of Ponce issued a permit. Colonel Enrique de Orbeta, insular police chief, promptly canceled it. The Nationalists announced they would parade anyhow. The paraders came in contact with police near Pila Hospital in the heart of Ponce. A shot (fired by a Nationalist, according to police) broke the Sunday afternoon calm...