Word: nationalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven thousand miles from Australia in London last week Laborite Scullin's foe & predecessor, former Nationalist Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce, seemed flabbergasted by the suddenness of the Government's fall. Unable to get back to Australia in time for the General Election (which Mr. Scullin promptly announced to take place Dec. 19), Mr. Bruce frantically kept in touch with friends in Australia who organized a "Committee of 100" to try to win him a seat in Flinders, Victoria...
...City's prediction was based on the fact that this year Labor candidates in 444 constituencies out of the entire 615 will have a straight fight against a single ("Nationalist") opponent who will receive all non-Labor and anti-Labor votes. Two years ago, when Labor, barely "won the election (TIME, June 10, 1929), one-third of all Labor candidates were victorious for no other reason than that each had two or more opponents who cut each other's throats. This year such throat- cutting has been reduced to a scientific minimum by broad agreement among all parties...
...they are free," postulated St. Gandhi, "are whether they have been granted control of Indian defense, the Indian Civil Service and Indian finance" -these being precisely the things Britons are trying to reserve while granting to India something called Independence, "I will not accept the husks of Independence," ultimatumed Nationalist Gandhi amid dead silence. "Rather, would I declare myself a rebel. We know what that means, but thousands of Indian Nationalists have rid themselves of the fear of Death." Chaplin & Gandhi. Fortunately no test of strength between India and Britain was possible last week. Talk was all anyone could...
...King Is So Generous!" King George and Edward of Wales's gestures of cutting $242,500 and $48,600, respectively, off their incomes (TIME, Sept. 14) were not entirely successful from the point of view of the Nationalist Government. They were warmly applauded by thoughtful people but the gesture called the attention of angry Socialists to the vast sums of money paid annually to the Crown.* In Scotland the news provoked something almost unheard of in British journalism, a personal attack on the royal family. Even more shocking to conservative Britons is the fact that Forward, the paper in which...
...Every time the train stopped hundreds of devout Chinese banged their heads against the sides, the window panes, the brake rods, hoping to receive virtue through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight Soviet propaganda, explain the Nationalist Government to the Manchurian masses. In return for this the Panchen Lama receives a new title: "Great Wise Priest Who Guards the Nation and Spreads Culture...