Word: nationalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over an affliction of the legs, dating in his case from a motorcycle accident. Recently he resigned from South Africa's Federal bench. Last week, supported by friends who helped him in & out of motor cars and up to platforms. Judge Roos began a campaign to split the Nationalist Party of himself and Premier Hertzog. Appealing to South African farmers he told them that to go off the gold standard would mean "higher prices" for their produce-which it would, in depreciated Union pounds. Appealing to South Africa's mining interests he offered them the prospect of paying...
...acute political situation. . . . There is some hope that South Africa will soon return to the gold standard. . . . Much will depend upon whether the Government is able to command a majority when Parliament meets." First test of strength was expected to come Jan. 14 at a caucus of the Transvaal Nationalist Party. If Judge Roos captures the caucus from Premier Hertzog, that may start a landslide sweeping the Judge into the Premiership...
...Monstrous!" shouted Nationalist Deputy Louis Marin. "Are we going to lend money to a former enemy country when we have just refused to pay the United States which was our ally?" Unimpressed, the Chamber voted the Austrian Loan...
...Premier Herriot, ignoring the Stimson "No" to Britain's first note, prepared a note nearly identical in import, confidently submitted it to the committees on Finance and Foreign Affairs. While they grappled the problems Premier Herriot returned to the Chamber floor in time to hear Louis Marin, aged Nationalist leader, flaying any proposal to make payment. Loud applause greeted M. Marin's shout: "If we pay now, why shouldn't we pay on June 15 and for that matter for the next 60 years? We are not bound to pay because of the Hoover moratorium...
...cables from Allahabad and Delhi raised once more the issue of competence. Who is competent to speak for India? Mr. Ganhdi continued to squat in Yerovda Jail last week, "during His Majesty's pleasure." At the Conference in London sat no representative of Mr. Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party and not even a Prince or Maharaja of importance. True, the Aga Khan was there but he is the merest British puppet and the head of no Indian state. The Labor Party of Great Britain declined, some weeks ago. to sit in at the Conference because the present British...