Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon announced in the House of Commons that Britain would put up ?5,000,000 to help stabilize Chinese currency. Not only did the money help China, but it thoroughly botched up a Japanese program to oust the Chinese dollar by Japanese-backed money...
...from weakening the Indian independence movement, the resignations were expected to strengthen it. The rank and file of Congress members were already clamoring to oust them. Many of the old Congress high command resigned because they wanted to avoid the ignominy of dismissal. The Mahatma's spiritual appeal has long been powerful with the Hindu masses, but the radical Bose program, based on a frankly anti-British policy, has been strongly supported by Indian workers and peasants. For Britain there were definite signs of storms ahead. British viceroys and governors in India will no longer deal with "reasonable" Saint...
...Arabs control of this territory. The Hebrew claim to Palestine is based not only on residence in Biblical times but on the fact that there has always been a Jewish settlement in Palestine since then. Furthermore, Jewish colonization has not and would not deprive Arabs of their land or oust them from the country. With the advent of the Zionists, the Arab standard of living has risen, and the Arab population has almost doubled due to immigration from other Arab countries and to a declining death rate as a result of Jewish medical services...
...such a far-off historical precedent does not warrant depriving the Arabs of a land they have held for over twelve hundred years. Deplorable as may be the persecution of the Jews in several European countries, the need for a haven of refuge is no excuse for them to oust a Moslem population of twice their number. One cannot help but sympathize with these desert dwellers in their fight against inundation by a flood of alien settlers, who have a diametrically opposed philosophy of life. Even if no displacement of population is intended, a minority of less than one-third...
Granted this, the current fishing expedition appears unlikely to land anything. The Teachers' Federation will not oust a number of very powerful locals which could be classed under the catchall "Communistic," nor will the American Federation of Labor oust as important an organ as the Teachers' Federation...