Word: secessionism
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His proposal for them : the opportunity to form a separate state. This proposal was not misliked by the Moslem League's President Ali Mohamed Jinnah, who fears' nothing so much as the establishment of a Hindu raj, hand-picked by Congress. But it was much misliked by Nehru...
Jinnah, the leader of the Moslems (in impeccable Savile Row clothes), knew that he was in a strong bargaining position. It seemed unlikely that he would compromise on the secession clause. At week's end Jinnah muezzined to the faithful: "A lot of propaganda has been going on in...
Moncado startled Filipinos by advocating "dominion status for the Philippines under the United States." Quezon and Osmeña stuck to their Nationalist platform, which calls for outright independence for the Philippines in 1946. But Manuel Quezon, whose passion for secession has been minified lately under the shadow of Japanese...
Toughs from the slums getting ready to fight the collegeboys; middlewesterners talking about secession from "that British colony in the East"; Lindbergh haranguing the crowds about "new leadership"; everywhere the lines are being drawn more sharply, and the gap between isolationist and interventionist is steadily and alarmingly widening. Max Lerner...
Rebs. In Oregon, Curry County residents aroused by the State's failure to encourage local industry clamored for secession, decided to join California.