Word: pro-british
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Oliver subsequently became a chief justice in Massachusetts but was very unpopular because of his pro-British sentiments in the years before the Revolution. Several impeachments failed to remove him, but finally a mob dragged the judge from his bench only to let him escape. The next day an armed guard protected Oliver successfully...
...next 30 years Weizmann fought the British policy, in love and in anger. Ousted as president of the Zionist Congress in 1931 for his "pro-British" methods, he returned, by invitation, to pick up the cudgels again in 1935. "Jews are not going to Palestine," he cried to the Colonial Office, "to become in their ancient home 'Arabs of the Mosaic faith.' " To his old friend, Ormsby-Gore (the Colonial Secretary), he wrote that the Zionist policy of cooperation with Britain in Palestine had remained unilateral-"it was unrequited love." In 1939 the love affair came...
...hoped for. With a tenacious retrieving game, she took the second set, lost the third and deciding one, only when Miss Osborne got her forecourt game going full blast. With an earnest manner and a well-displayed figure, Mrs. Bostock succeeded in making the Forest Hills crowd unmistakably pro-British...
...Pro-British and pro-all other democratic states...
...Congress Party Socialists, who favors an anti-British revolution, has called Jinnah a British stooge. Last week he told the students and faculty of the Hindu University of Benares: "In the coming fight, Congress will not have the same objects as in past struggles. Congress workers will not go to jail. Instead, they will have strength enough this time to do the arresting themselves. When the revolution starts, our strategy will be to capture all Government offices and institutions and establish a People's Raj. British governors and pro-British officials should be jailed...